Simon Rich Quotes

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

I try to be conscious of others, put my best foot forward and show growth. I just try to be my best self - and I think that is the most important thing.

I love doing great entertainment, but I like the joke to be on me. I don't want to take advantage of some poor person and dog 'em out and let the chips fall.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Ultimately, I do my best to not subscribe to things that are unnecessarily negative, harmful, or hurtful to somebody.

When you feel yourself being critical, whether it is of yourself or another person, stop yourself. Look for positive aspects to admire.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.

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

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.