Top 100 How I See Myself Quotes
#1. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.
Michael Rapaport
#3. I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.
Karen Armstrong
#4. With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Hugh Jackman
#5. From now on whenever I read a math book, I'm going to try to figure out by myself how everything was done, before looking at the solution. Even if I don't figure it out, I think I'll be able to see the beauty of a proof then.
Donald E. Knuth
#6. You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.
Brett Favre
#7. What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.
Kadir Nelson
#8. He never got up high enough to see.
That's why I don't advise your trying this side.
He tried this side. I've always meant to go
And look myself, but you know how it is:
It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain
You've worked around the foot of all your life.
Robert Frost
#9. I find it fascinating to see other people's photos on social media but I don't upload pictures myself. I don't even know how to. I'm completely digital-phobic.
Abi Morgan
#10. I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision and tell them how lousy their work was.
Steve Wozniak
#11. There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made the decision never go to a ski coach for mental help. I said last season I will try a mental coach and see how it works.
Michaela Dorfmeister
#12. I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.
Clint Eastwood
#13. I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!
Liu Wen
#14. I don't really weigh myself, but over time - and I'm not crazy about it - but I know how I want to feel in clothes, and it does become addicting, and once you see results, you want to see more.
Khloe Kardashian
#15. I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Courteney Cox
#16. Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media ... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.
Kevin Kwan
#17. I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living ... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?
Lisette Model
#18. Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, "That's me." I think, "This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?"
Laurel Nakadate
#19. Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world ... is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
Enoch Powell
#20. It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
Rosanne Cash
#21. O, she said, a woman in love can't afford to be proud. He must be made to see, he must be made to come back. And I must do it myself, no matter how silly it looks.
Brian Moore
#22. I've always seen myself as a small entity, and it will always stay like that. I'm not changing. But I think the big challenge for me taking on the Dior thing is to see how I can connect that to such a huge institution.
Raf Simons
#23. When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.
Wanderlei Silva
#24. It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.
Carly Pope
#25. I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.
Ellie Goulding
#26. If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You.
Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You.
No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ...
Anything I am entirely is You!
Rumi
#27. No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
Christian Bale
#28. How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
Therese Of Lisieux
#29. My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.
Henry Adams
#30. I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.
Enrique Vila-Matas
#31. I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.
Dustin Clare
#32. I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own and finally, also without any counsel because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.
Maria Theresa
#33. I love making art ... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.
Chuck Close
#34. It's better to not think about the night and how badly I want her, so I let it sort of stew there in my mind instead. And when I get her all to myself again, I'll be grateful just to see her smile, just to have her with me.
Even if it's only for one more night.
Amanda Lance
#35. I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.
David Alpay
#36. I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.
Jade Jagger
#37. I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
Tom Stoppard
#38. Thinking back on it, I just really didn't have very many role models to look up to when it came to Asian actresses. And in that way, when I would see an Asian onscreen, it would be a secondary-type thing, and that's kind of how I ended up viewing myself in the world: as secondary.
Kimiko Glenn
#39. I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
David Bowie
#40. I close my eyes, hoping to lose myself in the darkness but strangely, all I see are colors. How's that even possible? I'm going blind from my arousal.
Alexandra Iff
#41. His lack of remorse and boundaries should have been a red flag to me, but it sort of made me want to see how far I would let myself go with him.
Monica Alexander
#42. Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, ... with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
Ben Jonson
#43. I gave myself up to my thoughts - what else could I do! Of course, this was the very worst thing for my head, but I still do not see how I could have avoided it. This winter my programme will be to recover from myself, to rest myself away from my thoughts - for years I have not had this experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Victor Hugo
#45. You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!
Robert Musil
#46. When I speak to you about myself, I'm speaking to you about yourself. How is it that you don't see that?
Victor Hugo
#47. I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.
Clemence Poesy
#48. Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
Mark Kassen
#49. When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music ...
Gustav Ejstes
#50. I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#51. Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.
Eminem
#52. I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills.
Penny Lancaster
#53. The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am ... not all actors approach it that way.
Stephen Lang
#54. It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'
Gwyneth Paltrow
#55. I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
Jodi Picoult
#56. Do I think there is a heaven? Uh, yeah I do. Like a really big gymnasium. How do I see myself there? With really bad seats.
David Letterman
#57. I ask myself how other people see me, and I hope they see me from way far away.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#59. My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.
Rabih Alameddine
#60. I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.
Elvis Presley
#61. I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope - I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.
Lisa Kleypas
#62. Pain is awesome I like it, to see myself scared is awesome to see how people get killed just makes me happy.
Deyth Banger
#63. I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling - it was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.
Stephenie Meyer
#64. When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'
Javier Bardem
#65. I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.
Brandi Carlile
#66. Sometimes I like to watch videos of myself and see how confident I was.
Gabby Douglas
#67. Here's how I see your weight - it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.
Oprah Winfrey
#68. Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me ... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
Ze Frank
#69. Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
Adam G. Sevani
#70. I was just a minion [in X-Men: Apocalypse]. They just told me what to do so I didn't really have much to do with it but I was curious to see how they were going to top it and if they could and I think they have. I'm very excited to see it myself.
Evan Peters
#71. I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
Nathan Sawaya
#72. But that's how I felt in high school, sure that my people were from elsewhere, and going elsewhere, and that they would recognise me when they saw me. They would like me enough that it wouldn't matter if I liked myself. They would see the good in me so that I could, too.
Lena Dunham
#73. I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.
Alicia Vikander
#74. I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.
Jessica Simpson
#75. I felt myself getting whiter ... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
Don DeLillo
#76. So you see, the real question isn't how I left this world to go to the woods.
It's how I made myself come back.
Jodi Picoult
#77. I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills ... and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.
Vijay Seshadri
#78. I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.
Buddy Hackett
#79. So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.
Rabindranath Tagore
#80. don't you see how
hard speaking is for me?
how hard
breathing is?
don't you see that
I'm a negative space
cut from the
universe and
when you ask
me to breathe
i am trying to
will myself
into
being?
Darshana Suresh
#81. I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
Brian Andreas
#82. While reading Kasparov's book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on "popular highlights" to see what passages other readers had found interesting - and wound up becoming fascinated by a section on chess strategy I'd only lightly skimmed myself.
Clive Thompson
#83. My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'
James Hong
#84. I didn't see how that applied to me, and reminded myself never to let a book replace my own thinking
Richard Bach
#85. GreenHollyWood asked me "How I sleep?", after all, after this horror and terror. The truth is that I close the one eye 1-2 seconds go and then the other... and I sleep. To to don't forget, if we will be friends I enjoy the horror..., I like to see myself scared!?
Deyth Banger
#86. I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.
Scott Bradfield
#87. I want you to see me
and I know that I've never known
how to make myself visible before.
Darshana Suresh
#88. I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
Avicii
#89. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
George S. Clason
#90. I've always cared about my personal style and the way people perceive me. I know a lot of times people don't get the opportunity to talk to me, so they're just going to see what I wear, see how I'm dressed, see how I present myself.
Dwyane Wade
#91. I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting myself into the future, clutching at and always failing to grasp the wisp of now.
Charles Yu
#92. I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
Patricia Briggs
#93. My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.
Michael Zaslow
#94. You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.
Nicole Scherzinger
#95. I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.
Michael Ondaatje
#96. Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.
Erin Gray
#97. If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.
Scott Bakula
#98. I hate that I let myself be so passive my whole life, and I see now how differently things could've been if I'd had faith in myself when it mattered. I don't want to go back to that. I won't. Not ever.
Tahereh Mafi
#99. For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.
Rene Auberjonois
#100. I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.
Rich Mullins