Tana French Quotes

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

I think as soon as we start thinking of ourselves as good people, that's when we start letting ourselves off the hook which is bad. I think we should always be trying to be better but that doesn't mean we want to be good.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

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.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

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

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

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

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

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

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.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.