David Mamet Quotes

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

My personality doesn't interest me.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

Know thyself.

I've learned a lot by watching myself on television, and I hope I've changed for the better.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.

It's definitely something that is a direct reflection in the mirror when you do a reality show. You can see what your flaws are and what you need to work on.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.