Shannon Sharpe Quotes

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I made bad decisions. I'm not denying that I made bad decisions.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

There are a lot of layers to me.

We're all reflections of the lives we lead.

I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive.

I'm afraid my own approach to everything is exactly the same: Who am I? What do I want? What are the circumstances - difficult or non-difficult? What are the obstacles, physical and non-physical? Finally, given who I am, the circumstances, the obstacles, what do I do? That's the only thing you do. You've got to do the action.

We are all driven by our personal realities. Otherwise you are a saint or someone who has dedicated their lives to activism.

The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.