Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
Ira Glass
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
Actor
Film Producer
Radio Personality
Radio Producer
Screenwriter
Baltimore
Maryland
Point
Better
Something
Inhibit
Criticize
More quotes by Ira Glass
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
Ira Glass
The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.
Ira Glass
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.
Ira Glass
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
Ira Glass
I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
Ira Glass
I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.
Ira Glass
I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
Ira Glass
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
Ira Glass
...uncorny, human sized drama
Ira Glass
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
Ira Glass
I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.
Ira Glass
I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.
Ira Glass
The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.
Ira Glass
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
Ira Glass
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
Ira Glass
I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass
I can only control what I can control.
Ira Glass
Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
Ira Glass