Dan Quinn Quotes

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

We try not to worry about our opponent. We try to worry about ourselves.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

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

I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.