Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

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

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

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

I'm not good at watching myself.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

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.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

Nobody likes to be judged, including me, but I am the first to say that I am far from perfect.

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

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.