Alex Lawther Quotes

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

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

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.

What we say no to is sometimes more important than what we say yes to.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

I can't have friends in every port. I have to work very hard and be very clear about what I want to do. I cannot just swallow everything I am told. I have to decide what I want to become part of my luggage - and what I don't.

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

My ego has been in check for a long time.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.