Brendan Gill Quotes

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself but accept myself. I wanted to take myself less seriously -- and also more seriously. I wanted to use my time well, but I also wanted to wander, to play, to read at whim. I wanted to think about myself so I could forget myself. I was always on the edge of agitation; I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition.

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.

My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.