Define Yourself Quotes - Page 3

• Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

  Amy Hill Hearth

  Mean, Want, Way

  Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, People

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• For somebody who's never run for office before, Donald Trump understands that old axiom, "Define yourself before you're defined."

  Kellyanne Conway

  Running, Office, Trump

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Karma, People

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Feb 15, 2010

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

  Andrej Pejic

  Identity Politics, Defining, Fans

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• Send out judgment and low energy and that is what you'll attract back. Remember, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Judging, Energy, Needs

  "The Power of Intention". Book by Wayne Dyer, danberkovitz.com. February, 2004.

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• When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Confusion, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.66, Penguin

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• I think sometimes you get too caught up in the business side, and you make compromises, and then the brand becomes unexciting. I think in the early stages you have to be bold. You have to define yourself. Everyone wants to understand who you are and why you're here. I think the best brands are forever surprising people.

  Reed Krakoff

  Thinking, People, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

  Idris Elba

  Eras, Actors, World

  "Idris Elba on ‘Luther’, Movie Possibilities, Neil Cross, His Upcoming Album, and More". Interview with Chrisitna Radish, collider.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mean, Like Being Alone, Mirrors

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• As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.

  Greg Graffin

  Atheist, Mean, Atheism

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• Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch with their emotions. They no longer remember what it is to live and breathe within the world. They think it simple to pit any two people against each other. It is never simple. The other person becomes how you define your life, how you define yourself. They become as necessary as breathing. Then they expect the victor to continue on without that. It would be like pulling the Murray twins apart and expecting them to be the same. They would be whole but not complete.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Simple, Two

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• Whether it’s your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don’t let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

  Copyright © by Sherry Argov

  Sherry Argov

  Needs, Taste, Clothings

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.

  Dale Peck

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

  Howard Schultz

  Mother, Company You Keep, Age

  "Starbucks boss: we're not all froth". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Care

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• I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

  Terry Gross

  Kids, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would probably list myself as mostly straight. I've met guys all the time that I'm like, Damn, that's a good-looking guy, you know? I've never been, like, Oh, I want to kiss that guy. I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Gay, Kissing, Thinking

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• When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Growing Up, Teenager, Identity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.

  Deborah Meier

  People, Way, Fixing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

  H. Rap Brown

  Black, Heritage

  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.62, Chicago Review Press

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• Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Self, Enlightenment

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• I love New York very much, and it was very important for me to spend my 20s in New York City. You're exposed to so much here, whether it's other people or just the grind of it and how hard you have to work. I think it forces you to define yourself: what kind of person do you want to be? What kind of woman do you want to be? And then inevitably, what kind of actress do you want to be?

  Christine Evangelista

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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