David Drummond Quotes

I'm not going to sugarcoat myself. For what?

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

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 have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.

Remembering in an honest way means admitting the truth.

To me, I look at situations and try to look back and see if there was anything I could have done.

The thing that I've decided is, I don't want to be invisible, but I'd like to be transparent. I want people to see what I'm thinking and see through me.

It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

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

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.