About Yourself Quotes - Page 14

• By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or the landscapes or the people you photograph - and this is where photography really interests me.

  Frank Horvat

  Photography, People, Trying

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• If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Trying, Care

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• You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?

  Shannen Doherty

  Thinking, People, Stuff

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• I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Believe, Thinking

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• Honor is what you know about yourself.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Honor, Honored, Knows

  ""A Civil Campaign"". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Enemy, Register, Define You

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• My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

  Ani DiFranco

  Kids, Thinking, Political

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• My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don't care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself.

  Norman Reedus

  Attitude, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was 17 when it was being filmed and so I was at an age where you are learning a lot about yourself. I came out of school to film it, and I hadn't been having a good time in school before that. I get quite shy around big groups of people. If I meet people, especially my peers and people my own age, I always struggle because I've always worked with adults and they have a tendency to molly coddle you a bit when you're the youngest on-set.

  Yasmin Paige

  Struggle, School, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Mirrors, Looks, How You Feel

  Source: collider.com

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• You're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Revealing Something, Way, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadowy places. You're going to learn things about yourself that you'll wish you didn't know. There are monsters in there-monsters you can't control-but trying to keep them hidden will only give them greater power.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Journey, Giving, Wish

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• When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way.

  Paula Patton

  Thinking, Body, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

  Tracy Chapman

  Believe, World, Able

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• I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

  Peter Carey

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.

  Francis Chan

  Thinking, Giving, Spirit

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• The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Real, Order

  "The Biofuels Debacle". www.nysun.com. April 28, 2008.

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• If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Trying, Judgment, I've Learned

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• Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Feel Better, People, Like You

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• Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

  Guy Finley

  Unseen, Conclusion, Limitation

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.45, BookBaby

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• When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

  Freida Pinto

  Thinking, Clothes, Hair

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• I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

  Freida Pinto

  Skins, Faces, Paper

  "Freida Pinto: The Goddess". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Running, People, Finding Yourself

  "10 Cloverfield Lane: John Gallagher Jr. talks John Goodman and monsters". Interview with Emma Thrower, www.empireonline.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Knowing, Interesting

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Order, Leaving, Information

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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