Joel Edgerton Quotes

I'm not good at watching myself.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way - God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody's got a right to an opinion about it.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.