#admitting

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#admitting #before #everything #objective #reality

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on. ↗

— Gary Numan

#although #asked #because #been #carry

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. ↗

— Robert Half

#bigger #mistake

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#hate #i #point

You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn’t want to. You want me to think I’m selfish.” “I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths. ↗

— Dawn Jayne

#courage #thoughts-and-actions #courage

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#church #government #governments #religion #religion

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head. ↗

— Emma Stone

#am #around #been #bunny #embarrassment

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #culture #diseases #disgusting #had

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#carried #certain #embarrassment #feel #field

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#adult #alone #defeat #eating #kind