About Yourself Quotes - Page 24

• Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.

  Jesy Nelson

  Being Yourself, Individual, Embrace

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• What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

  Linda Evans

  Thinking, Looks

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• Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

  Maxine Greene

  Thinking, Alive, Consciousness

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• Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Views, Giving

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• We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Trying, Culture

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• Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Laughing, Grain Of Salt, Able

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• You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

  David Copperfield

  Feel Better, Magic, Kind

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• It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Mitch Albom (2007). “For One More Day”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

  Merrill Markoe

  Men, Listening, Doe

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• I think at the time I wasn't very happy about it [marriage], but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized. I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger and I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn't think it at the time.

  Kate Middleton

  Thinking, Stronger, Made

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• In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu

  Sahndra Fon Dufe

  Google, Care, May

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• And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

  Questlove

  Ideas, People, Worry

  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman (2013). “Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Golf, Nervous, Worst

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• Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.

  Steve Pavlina

  Reality, Belief

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• Everyday, say a hundred things you love about yourself.

  Sonia Choquette

  Everyday, Hundred, Things You Love

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• It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Different, Firsts

  "Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction No. 102". Interview with Thomas Frick, The Paris Review, Issue 106, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1988.

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• Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Ideas, Perception

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• Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

  Janette Rallison

  Nice, Feel Better, Confusing

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

  Bear Grylls

  Speak

  Bear Grylls (2012). “To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life”, p.44, David C Cook

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• I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, Sensitive Person, How You Feel

  "Fiona Apple's Cinderella Story". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. October 4, 1996.

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• It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

  Gregory Maguire

  Heart, Thinking, Causes

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• Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, People, Jazz Improvisation

  "Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Messenger". Interview with Eugene Holley, Jr., www.ebony.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

  Leighton Meester

  Friends, Way, Process

  "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.

  Shay Mitchell

  Skin Color, Special, Skins

  "Shay Mitchell Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. June 26, 2012.

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• When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

  Steven Morrissey

  Feel Better, Thinking, Skills

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