About Yourself Quotes - Page 21

• Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

  Simon Pegg

  Ironic, Different, Print

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• You think you might know something about yourself or why you act or react in certain ways and then you come to new information and suddenly you see your past and your present in a completely different light.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Past, Thinking, Different

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• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  Mos Def

  Care, Sake, Ridiculous

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Every company, of course, teaches you so much humanly and professionally [about] yourself and your creative process.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Creative, Process, Teach

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you can observe your own experience with a minimum of interference, and if you don't try to control what you experience, if you simply allow things to happen and you observe them, then you will be able to discover things about yourself that you did not know before. You can discover little pieces of the inner structures of your mind, the very things that make you who you are.

  Ron Kurtz

  Mind, Trying, Pieces

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• Aren’t we all animals at the end of the day? I like to show that side of me, but in a respectful way. I’m just expressing myself. It’s all about feeling good and confident about yourself, and not letting anyone else tell you what you can or can't do.

  Fefe Dobson

  Animal, Feel Good, Feelings

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• I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Reading, Doors, Listening

  "Mark Gatiss and Tom Riley discuss bringing Robin Hood to life for ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. September 5, 2014.

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• If you don't feel you're the best, then you shouldn't be doing your job. No one else cares if you don't care about yourself.

  Donovan McNabb

  Jobs, Care, You Re The Best

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• Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature

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• The American Dream is a romantic notion but it's newer - not as pretty. You go to Europe, and it says something about the type of person you are. You're in search of something more intimate and more about yourself.

  Kate Hudson

  Dream, Europe, Intimate

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• I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Kings, Crazy

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Taking from others never results in prosperity. If we steal from others, life will steal from us. There is an incredible abundance on this planet. True prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself and about the choices you make. Life is here for us. Life is here to support us in every way. We give out, we get back. Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Josh Billings

  Honesty, Giving, Choices

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• The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.

  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

  Hands, Play, Tennis

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• I don't consider myself a funny girl, but I do have a sense of humor because I don't take myself too seriously. Taking yourself too seriously, I think, is not right. Life is supposed to be funny. Because if you can laugh about yourself when you made a mistake or when you did something wrong, you can learn from it.

  Stephanie Sigman

  Girl, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured through us. He wants His wisdom to be deposited in our hearts. He wants His instinct and nature to be evident and obvious in you.He wants us to see what He is looking at, to feel what He feels, to know what He knows, to work with His projects, see life the way He sees it, get His ideas and know His opinion about yourself and others.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Ideas, Energy

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• I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

  Mary J. Blige

  Doe, Care, Love Myself

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• There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

  Sean Kinney

  Talking, Interesting, Talking About Yourself

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• When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

  Carol Channing

  People, Trying, Likes

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• In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.

  Kenny Loggins

  Careers, Judging, How You Feel

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Self, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

  Emily Yoffe

  Steps, Milestone, Happens

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You can go from having all your stuff together and really feeling good about yourself to really figuring you can't run a lick.

  Jeff Burton

  Running, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Charlotte II: Burton, Johnson post-race transcript". Interview, www.motorsport.com. October 15, 2006.

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• Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.

  Rodney Dangerfield

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• Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

  Alan Alda

  Stars, Powerful, Heaven

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• Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Night, People, Important

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.715, Penguin UK

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