John Slattery Quotes

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

I invented myself.

No one's going to make you work on yourself except you.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I don't like to direct myself.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

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

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.