Myself Is Quotes

#1. What I really do when I write you is follow myself, and I'm doing it right now: I'm following myself without knowing what it will lead me to. Sometimes following myself is so hard. Because of following something that's still so nebulous. Sometimes I end up stopping.

Clarice Lispector

#2. I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

John Noble

#3. (W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

Tom Wolfe

#4. Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#5. The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

Jarvis Cocker

#6. My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

Marc Jacobs

#7. From Open House
My truths are all foreknown,
This anguish self-revealed.
I'm naked to the bone,
With nakedness my shield.
Myself is what I wear:
I keep the spirit spare.

Theodore Roethke

#8. I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too.

Kerry Condon

#9. A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

Frances Harper

#10. I think President Obama, like myself, is a multitasker.

Benigno Aquino III

#11. Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

Emma Holly

#12. My favorite meal to make for myself is meatloaf.I prepare the the ground beef (I don't use anything else) and flatten it out so it's about 1/2 inch thick, then I spread shredded cheddar all over it, then I roll it up. It's amazing. Like a big cheeseburger.

Tim Gunn

#13. One of the things I love about myself is my ability to remain open to suggestion.

Alan Bradley

#14. The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

Sarah Paulson

#15. What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

Lupita Nyong'o

#16. Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake person that the world wants me to be, all they want to see is the real me, the real person that is inside of me.

Erica Maples

#17. To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

Marianne Faithfull

#19. Not the "be yourself" line. I loathe that line. As if Myself and Tic have met before and gotten along, so all I have to do is make sure Myself is there this time. So illogical.

Kasie West

#20. Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

#21. Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

T.C. Boyle

#22. I don't know what understanding myself is. I don't look inside.
I don't believe I exist behind myself.

Alberto Caeiro

#23. I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

Max Irons

#24. I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Clarice Lispector

#25. One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

Pam Houston

#26. One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars," she says. "A lot of them even worse than mine. The only difference is that mine are visible and most people's aren't.

Colleen Hoover

#27. I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

Vladimir Nabokov

#28. I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.

Meryl Streep

#29. I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.

Stephen Harper

#30. A question I sometimes ask myself is, Will saying this or doing this or dressing this way distract guys from Jesus?

Paula Hendricks

#31. What I've always insisted on from myself is to do as well as I could, and keep doing better until I'm at least competent. Long ago I learned that to achieve anything, one must start where one stands. Or spend eternity waiting for the right moment. Which never comes.

Victor Milan

#32. It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.

Juliette Binoche

#33. My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Uzo Aduba

#34. It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

John Lennox

#35. The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."

Jessica Pare

#36. The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Diane Ackerman

#37. What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from
I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Arthur Adamov

#38. Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

#39. The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin

#40. The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.

Tom Rachman

#41. The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and yet, it is a reality which most people deny and try to escape from.

Wolf Wolfensberger

#42. The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

Rachel Hartman

#43. When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Rita Rudner

#44. I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

Karl Kraus

#45. My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber. My biggest mistake in life was pretending that I wasn't trying to avoid paying taxes on that money.

Brian Mulroney

#46. What I've accomplished for myself is beyond my wildest dreams. What I accomplished for my country is one of my most proud achievements.

Li Na

#47. Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

Viswanathan Anand

#48. Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.

Dannye Williamsen

#49. Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

Nicole Kidman

#50. Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

Saul Bellow

#51. Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Larry Wall

#52. I may not be the skinniest, smartest, prettiest,or happiest. But I am myself. Being myself, is being perfect. Just as everyone else being themselves is being perfect.

Anna Glazebrook

#53. I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

Graham Greene

#54. My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

Robyn Davidson

#55. To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

Nas

#56. I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Ashton Eaton

#57. I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside of myself is everything else.

Dana Gould

#58. Wheneve someone asks me, "Did you find everything alright?" I wonder to myself, "Is this a trick question?"
Maybe there is something that is not all right, and if I mention it first I get some exotic prizes!!

Neil Leckman

#59. My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

Salvador De Madariaga

#60. One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

Joshua Ferris

#61. As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.

Federico Fellini

#62. The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Groucho Marx

#63. Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

Brie Larson

#64. The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#65. The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Ellen Forney

#66. Everyday I asked a question to myself.... Is that what you want?
And the answer comes...
NO, this is what the god wants.
And i still dont have the answer....

Bharat Singh

#67. The thing I see for myself is to be the best ever.

Simeon Rice

#68. The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

Lena Dunham

#69. It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

Macklemore

#70. When I read about women living under the Taliban, I really wanted to travel there and see for myself: Is it that bad? What is the situation? I remember the night before I left for my trip, I called my mom and said, "I'm going to Afghanistan tomorrow."

Lynsey Addario

#71. If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#72. To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#73. Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.

Michael A. Stackpole

#74. To give my freedom blindly to a being equal to or inferior to myself is to degrade myself and throw away my freedom. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. If

Thomas Merton

#75. I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

Kajol

#76. My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Woody Harrelson

#77. Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. - ANONYMOUS

Melody Beattie

#78. I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

Geri Halliwell

#79. For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching myself is opening my mind too. I just want to get better and I think there's nothing wrong with wanting to get better.

Eric Hernandez

#80. It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

Richey Edwards

#81. My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

Brennan Manning

#82. I feel like the better version of myself is on paper ... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

Aaron Sorkin

#83. All of nature is in me, and a bit of myself is in all of nature.

Lame Deer

#84. You made me see that friendship is a farce and trusting anyone other than myself is the biggest mistake I could make. It was a lesson I had been learning my whole life up until that point. But you tattooed it on my soul in a way I could never forget.

Aly Martinez

#85. The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Anthony Newley

#86. The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#87. My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

Oprah Winfrey

#88. When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'

Dennis Quaid

#89. My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.

Joan Juliet Buck

#90. The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have to worry about sticking to an art description or working for a specific audience or project.

Julie Dillon

#91. We look at each other--predator and prey, the conqueror and the conquered--and in that moment, I feel an odd sort of connection to him. Like a part of myself is forever altered by what's happening between us.

Anna Zaires

#92. The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

Mabel Seeley

#93. To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.

Marc Jacobs

#94. I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#95. All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.

Vladimir Nabokov

#96. How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful.

Bobbi Brown

#97. I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

Maya Angelou

#98. One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Andrew Mason

#99. Oxidation, I never tire of reminding myself, is what happens when oxygen attacks.

Alan Bradley

#100. When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, Is this necessary at this point in the book?

Pat Conroy