Stephen Karam Quotes

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

I have to admit, I underestimated Billie Jean and overestimated myself.

I've been under-estimated myself quite often, and in some ways I quite enjoy it.

I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth.

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

Love, too, has to be learned.

Once you let yourself believe that you've gotten to the top, you've lost sight of the real goal. Which is to keep climbing no matter what. And by climbing, I don't mean trying to out do yourself with even more accomplishments. Instead, what I mean is that just when we think we have done something well, we should start looking at the other areas of our lives that need attention.

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.