Moby Quotes

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

When I do something wrong, I take it pretty personal because I want to be perfect.

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

I'm very demanding of myself.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

I am very demanding of myself.

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

I'm very hard on myself. If it's a throw that I missed that I know I can make, that's something that I have to correct.

I always felt like, well, if TLC doesn't do good, it's because of our own recognizance.