Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.

Our biggest competitor is ourselves.

I'll never praise myself, because I think there's always improvement to be made.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

I know I'm not perfect.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.