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Self Quotes

You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut it down. It's always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.

Yourself Self Process You Down Your

When you use the form of a novel, and you say 'I,' you are also saying 'I' for someone else. When you say 'you,' you are simultaneously in your room writing and in the outside world - you are seeing and being seen seeing, and this creates something slightly strange and foreign in the self.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Writing World Saying Self Someone

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

Patriotism I Am Self Country Know

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship Friend Self Second Were

Julia Roberts most definitely would play me in the film of my life. Not just because of the hair but because she has all sides to her personality come through in films that I could just imagine her playing my crazy self so well.

Life Personality Me Crazy Hair Self

I often have to play a role to get what I want in my life. At the same time, I can't do that without also nourishing who I really am and being aware of my true self and the ways in which I'm not bound by my race or sexual orientation or class or country or whatever.

Life Time Self My Life Country Play

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

Confidence Daughter Age Self Now

On any high-performing team I've been a part of, putting mission first, and team before self, was always key to collective success.

Success Team Key Self Mission First

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self.

Laura van den Berg

Time World Self Present More Most

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Writing Voice Deep Self You Strange

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

Myself Self Feel I Can My Own Mean

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

Self Sense Just Secrecy Preserve

I have a variety of readers from across the diasporic community, not just from South Asia. I like to write large stories that include all of us - about common and cohesive experiences which bring together many immigrants, their culture shocks, transformations, concepts of home and self in a new land.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Home Community Culture Together Self

I was watching 'Mr. Roger's Neighborhood', 'Sesame Street', 'Electric Company', 'Romper Room', and 'Villa Alegre!' when I said to my self, 'Hey, self! Wouldn't it be fun to be one of those kids on the TV?' My mom thought it was a pretty good idea, too... and she instantly moved us from the Bay Area to Malibu... nice.

Good Fun Mom Thought Self Nice

I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.

Good People Think Self You Bad

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

Children Me Self Friends Anxiety

If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

People Compromise Self Uncomfortable

I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get inside the mind of somebody else.

Mind Looking Self Feel Trying Never

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Best Fight Stupidity Game Self End

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

World Looking Self Gender Lose Go

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

James Mark Baldwin

History Self Meaning Personal Matter

If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no one can be a Superman. You have to go beyond yourself with a 'third eye' - self-awareness - because the one thing you cannot flee is yourself.

Relationship Yourself Eye Self You

I don't look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now.

Colin Kaepernick

School High School Self Feel Look

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

People Self Confident Back Become

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