Charles Kuralt Quotes

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

An artist is his own fault.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.