Quotes About Expressing Yourself

#1. Writing
is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time.
The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and
writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

Ted Alexandro

#3. You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself."
"How about I express you out the nearest window?

Greg Cox

#4. When you say, 'I can't do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn't do that before.'

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

Macklemore

#6. We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. Begin your day by saying "I AM". You will begin to believe that you have control of your life, freedom of expressing yourself with ease, and the clarity to recognize your own truth.

Steven Cuoco

#8. To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

Bruce Lee

#9. Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

Mary J. Blige

#10. Being beautiful isn't everything ... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.

FKA Twigs

#11. Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

Zadie Smith

#12. You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

Jose Mourinho

#13. Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

Thomas S. Buechner

#14. Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#15. I really don't like to formulate what I believe because, like a quantum phenomenon, it varies from day to day, and anyway there's a sort of bad luck attached to expressing yourself too clearly.

Jim Holt

#16. I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

Rachel Platten

#17. Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.

Jewel

#18. What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.

Louise Bourgeois

#19. It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

Takashi Miike

#20. What prevents you from fully expressing yourself?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

Mick Jones

#22. Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

Chet Faker

#23. Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Emmanuel Jal

#24. No one knows if he or she or anyone in his or her life will be here in the next five minutes. Don't hold back on expressing yourself. Tell that special person today how you feel, give a hug, cast a smile instead of a frown, and don't forget to tell those you love that you love them.

Suzane Northrop

#25. Expressing yourself when he takes you for granted doesn't work.

Sherry Argov

#26. I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

RuPaul

#27. Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Bruce Lee

#28. If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

Donnie Yen

#29. There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

Werner Herzog

#30. I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

Melonie Diaz

#31. Music. It's not about those things. It's about a feeling. It's about expressing yourself. It's about letting go.

Antony John

#32. At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

Mac Miller

#33. The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension

J. Robbins

#34. Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to do. When you take the risk of expressing yourself in public, you have to open yourself to that possibility.

Michael Haneke

#35. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Eric Drooker

#36. Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Kristen Stewart

#37. Are you allowing your own expectations to hinder you from freely expressing yourself? Is your idea of the right way keeping you from your best way? Are you too distracted to show up? Are you living like a programmer instead of a poet?

Emily P. Freeman

#38. The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Kendrick Lamar

#39. Everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Brenda Ueland

#40. I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is a unique experience, and it can affect you on so many levels. But being an actor in movies you often have a very narrow palette for expressing yourself.

Zooey Deschanel

#41. It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.

Shunryu Suzuki

#42. Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me?

Elton John

#43. Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.

Saulo Ribeiro

#44. I think expressing yourself and working hard can't help but have great results. Look at Zach Galifanakis. He didn't tweet. He didn't have a podcast. He just went out and did the funniest standup you'll ever see in your life. And he was rewarded for that.

Scott Aukerman

#45. To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Ai Weiwei

#46. Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.

Sherry Argov

#47. Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

Boris Becker

#48. Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Tori Amos

#49. When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion.

Hayley Hasselhoff

#51. It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn't have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song.

Mike Ericksen

#52. The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.

Stephanie Clifford

#53. Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

Elise Valmorbida

#54. Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#55. What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

Wyndham Lewis

#56. So the key is doing something that sets you apart forever in the minds of regular people.
Something that matters.

Matthew Quick

#57. I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.

Julie Murphy

#58. Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

Bryant McGill

#59. Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

Leslie Mann

#60. Expressing an opinion with an empty soul can complicate your duty of respecting the opinions of others.

Vasilios Karpos

#61. If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#62. You are expressing your own limits in not allowing yourself to be taken for granted. If you are truly feeling like a martyr, or a person who has suffered a lot and deserves pity, make sure that you deal with that feeling first so that you are letting the child know about his behavior without guilt.

Henry Cloud

#63. When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.

Michele Cassou

#64. When you intervene on behalf of your child, your child becomes the victim. You're expressing the message 'You're incapable, you're not sturdy enough to resolve this yourself, you need me to come in and take care of this for you.'" You are, in essence, disempowering your child.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#65. Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

David Schwimmer

#66. The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

Deana Carter

#67. Aren't we all animals at the end of the day? I like to show that side of me, but in a respectful way. I'm just expressing myself. It's all about feeling good and confident about yourself, and not letting anyone else tell you what you can or can't do.

Fefe Dobson

#68. Be You! It is so enchanting to see the beauty that radiates from someone freely expressing their uniqueness.

Steve Maraboli

#69. Dedicate yourself to expressing your best.

Robin Sharma

#70. Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Bryant H. McGill

#71. To be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy.

Bronnie Ware

#72. We tend to suppress our anger against each other which ultimately leads to big quarrels some day. If two people have been naturally expressing their differences of opinion or having small arguments on regular basis, they will never have resentment or enmity of a lifetime.

Deep Trivedi

#73. Books can inspire you to love yourself more, but by listening to, writing out, or verbally expressing your feelings you are actually doing it.

John N. Gray

#74. Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Tim Fargo

#75. A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

Alexandra Stoddard

#76. The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ...

Freeman Patterson