I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.
Whether I’m at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.
Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.
I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.
I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don’t let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that’s real love.
I really feel I have found myself as a chef. It’s very clear to me what I want to do – and how it should taste.
That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that’s what I do.
But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
There are times I can’t even figure myself out.
I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people. I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers. So the pressure comes from myself.
What people say isn’t going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
I would like to say this for the record: that I am not trying to lose weight or gain weight. I am just trying to be the best version of myself, and that’s really important.
I didn’t inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I’m crazy fortunate.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
I didn’t see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
‘Edward Scissorhands’ was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.
I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.
I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
I would love to see myself as versatile – I think that’s important as a player – but I think, realistically, I feel like kind of how the team sees me is probably more set in stone as a center-back defender, which is totally fine.
Just try to do the right thing, and that’s immediate karma: ‘I feel good about myself.’
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.
I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it’s just not in me to do. So I don’t do it.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don’t have any opinions.
The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
I think I’m just always myself, and I think that’s what’s most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I’m very stubborn.
The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
I want to invest time in creating moments for myself.
I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.
I am so rich that I must give myself away.
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?
I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
So many times, people told me I can’t do this or can’t do that. My nature is that I don’t listen very well. I’m very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don’t let anything stand in my way.
It took me years to realize that ‘normal’ is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.
I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn’t going to be that way any more.
I’m not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.
