Matt Dillon Quotes

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I'm not good at watching myself.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

Dig for feedback on yourself. You need to have the courage to ask for feedback. You need to learn how you can learn how to grow. It is important that you are going to be a lifelong learner.

I'm definitely not satisfied and I always want to do better and learn more and get better.

You're always looking where you could do better.

If you look at who you were a year ago and aren't somewhat embarrassed, you're not growing as a person.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

It's good to always try to learn and try to grow.

I'm always trying to improve.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

You're always becoming; you've never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.