Josh Gordon Quotes

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

I know I've done bad things. But I've done just as much good as I have done bad. And it's not even necessarily bad. I would say they're growing pains.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

I learned from my past.

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

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.