Ngaio Marsh Quotes

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

A negative is never finished.

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.

I know all the critics.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say, he obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

I'm honestly offended whenever someone says I'm being harsh.

I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.

I don't have the biggest range on Earth, obviously, and I feel like people give me a lot of flak for that, but I don't really claim to have a big range.

I always focus on the negatives.

People who say I'm not focused, they're crazy.

It's like if you have a bad day and you don't change your mindset, even if you go to buy bread at the supermarket, like, everything is so bad. It happens. I'm very negative. You have to change it.

I think I could have a funnier, more economic sets. But that's the comedy I do. And I understand if people aren't interested in it and would rather listen to someone else. But I'll never understand the anger people have toward me.

I learned that I'm not young enough to think I know everything. Honestly. I think you hit a certain point in life where you expect that you have so much to learn, and you may think that you've arrived, but you have kind of just begun.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness