Shawn Kemp Quotes

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.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

I'll always be tough on myself.

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

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

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

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

What's happened in my career has been about knowing myself and realizing my flaws are my strengths, and to embrace them; to access what I'm really good at, and what I'm not so good at; and tune out the voices that get inside your head and make you think you can't do something.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

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.