Shura Quotes

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

I simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously.

I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance.

It's easy for me to stay grounded because I know I am just a girl, a mother, a daughter, a lover... a normal person who was lucky enough to do this job, and I know it's my job - not the person I am.

I get excited about all the things in football. But when I have days when I get too carried away with myself I look back at where I've come from.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

I'm even handed. I just point out the stupidity we all do.

The most important thing is to stay humble because there are always people telling you that you're this and that you're going to do that.

The family and friends and the people I surround myself allow me to keep my feet firmly on the floor and not get too big-headed.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I try not to be overly analytical.