Richard McCabe Quotes

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

It's ridiculous that people would judge my songs based on what I wore, but that's how it is... superficial. I don't really care, though - I am confident in the quality of my own work.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

Sometimes you can just tell there's something unique about it, but you can never really truly tell until you show it to a third party - you show it to you friends, or you show it to people you know that know about music like my label or those kinda people.

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

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

I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.