John Carmack Quotes

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

You change your life by changing your heart.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.

At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

The longer I have played, the perception of myself has changed. I conduct myself to other players a bit better.

I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

I am how I am. I cannot explain it well, but I don't feel the nicest person, on the football pitch or in life, I'm just myself.

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.