I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
When I heard my voice, like listen to myself playing it back-to-back, I just want to always perfect it.
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.
So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
The thing about Steven Seagal is that he clearly wants to be a great person, but he just doesn't know how.
We can’t all be better than everyone else.
I'm not trying to be as good or better than anybody; that's not how I work.
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.
I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
I know I'm not perfect.
We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.
I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.
I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.
I don't strive for perfection, because it doesn't exist.
