Yourself Quotes

I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.'

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

It's important to be true to yourself and your vision.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.