Ray Fearon Quotes

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

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

In the past, I've been a selfish player. I'll definitely admit that.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

I'm a work in progress.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.