Eric Yuan Quotes

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

Don't apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.