Andre Leon Talley Quotes

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

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.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

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