I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.
Every day I fail at something.
For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever.
I don't like failing at anything.
I ain't gonna win no Oscars.
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.
You can no more have a fool as a king than a blind man to lead you along the road
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.
I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
I'm just another stupid human.
We're all human; we all have weaknesses.
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Everything's not always perfect.
Losing has nothing to do with geography.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
