Jake Tapper Quotes

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I think I am my own biggest critic, yeah.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

I am my own biggest critic.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

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

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

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

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

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

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.