Quotes About Talking To Yourself

#1. Exactly why I don't have a boyfriend," I whisper, turning to the window. Because you've referenced The Lord of the Rings twice before lunch, or because you're talking to yourself? I have to admit, I've got me there.

David Arnold

#2. its bad enough talking to yourself but worse when you realise you aren't listening

Tabitca Cope

#3. Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you're going to say next.

Douglas Adams

#4. The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

Dylan Moran

#5. You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Robert Harris

#6. Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Guy Finley

#7. are you still talking to yourself! T Swift that shit and shake it off, dude!

Teagan Hunter

#8. People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy.

Molly Looby

#9. Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Michelle M. Pillow

#10. Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself.

Michael Grant

#11. When you try to talk to everyone, you're really just talking to yourself.

Vince Perritano

#12. Talking to yourself is okay. Answering back is risky.

Brian Spellman

#13. If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now?

Jim Butcher

#14. Vortexy.
"Is that even a word?" I ask myself
"You're talking to yourself, so who the hell cares?" I reply

Gayle Forman

#15. If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

Nigel Hamilton

#16. In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

Andrew Sullivan

#17. Well, you should turn your lips inside out because you're going to spend the rest of this trip talking to yourself.

Celia Mcmahon

#18. Talking to yourself again, jas?
yes, it beats talking to you.
oh, time machine back to first grade much?
only to visit your brain.

Michele Jaffe

#19. By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

Dale Carnegie

#20. Knowing your inner voice and how you will confront it, is like talking to yourself in front of the mirror and appreciate it.

EllieCue

#21. And Josh wanted to tell her what he knew: that love might look like a shore but turn out to be a desert island, where you roamed alone, talking to yourself, trying to crack open coconuts with your shoe. So thirsty you drank the salt water. So hungry you ate the sand.

Leah Stewart

#22. Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

Jim Berg

#23. The best thing about talking to yourself is at least you know you're listening. With anyone else, you can never really be sure. 08-10-2012

Jan Thomas

#24. Do you realize you're talking to yourself?
Yes.
It's good that you know the difference.

Alex Adams

#25. Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to,

Brittany Howard

#26. Never keep yourself alone. Keep talking to yourself. And you'll start feeling better.

Prerak Trivedi

#27. Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren't being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

Kenneth Eade

#28. There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#29. One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Franklin P. Jones

#30. Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Cesare Pavese

#31. Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

Max Lucado

#32. Surrounding yourself with 'yes' people is like talking to yourself.

Frank Sonnenberg

#33. If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Pema Chodron

#34. Christ," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,
"You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face.
Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.

Kristen Callihan

#35. You're not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge." He paused and shook his head at himself. "And Perrotte's away for a few minutes, and you're talking to yourself again.

Merrie Haskell

#36. A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

Fred Allen

#37. Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

Marty Rubin

#38. Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring as shit.

Chuck Klosterman

#39. I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

Austin Stowell

#40. You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.

Ernest Hemingway,

#41. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#42. I've always been a fan of therapy. You spend an entire hour talking about yourself and someone has to fake being fascinated by the strange assemblage of minutiae that is you.

Jenny Lawson

#43. Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big
your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!

Joel Osteen

#44. You could try," Reacher said. "But you'd get hurt. You're out of your league. You're up against something you never saw before."
"You have a mighty high opinion of yourself."
Reacher nodded at Neagley. "I'm talking about her. I'm just here to clear up the mess.

Lee Child

#45. From my new release, Cry for Me.
This is Bryen talking.
"Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois!

Toni Mariani

#46. It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Rupert Graves

#47. There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.

Marion Woodman

#48. Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Brian Chesky

#49. If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can't you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, 'Look who's talking,' but I would reply, 'I'm a boy and you're a girl.'

Shindong

#50. I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Leo Kottke

#51. In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.

Haruki Murakami

#52. Well, that was embarrassing. There was nothing wrong with talking to the voices in my head
unless everyone else was listening in.

Kate Carlisle

#53. The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Rajneesh

#54. A lot of healing is in the mind. I'm not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I'm talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it.

Tony McCoy

#55. Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#56. A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Jena Malone

#57. You make yourself happy while talking to someone. You will cease to talk when you lose the desire to impress that person.

Debasish Mridha

#58. You tell yourself to someone and they steal your soul. That's why I don't talk to anybody.

Elizabeth Flock

#59. I'm skipping, but Cam doesn't have a class until this afternoon, so he's a good boy."
"And your a bad boy?"
"Oh, I'm a bad, bad boy."
"Yeah, as in bad at spelling, math, english, cleaning up after yourself, talking to people, and I could go on.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#60. I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.

Mary J. Miller

#61. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself

Mona Hanie

#62. If we are talking about choice and regret, what has happened cannot be undone. And dwelling on the past changes nothing. You will only drive yourself to insanity if you do.

Julie Kagawa

#63. You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.

Kalup Linzy

#64. The mind interprets the real world and this is as real as real can be but you have to ask yourself, how often you have met a talking orchid?

Steve Merrick

#65. When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Soren Kierkegaard

#66. Did I say 'aspect ratio'? Yes I did. And if you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, there's a very good chance your television at home is set to the wrong aspect ratio, in which case I'd like you to stop reading right now and punch yourself hard in the kidneys.

Charlie Brooker

#67. You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

Mel Tillis

#68. You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

Andy Murray

#69. The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

Tony Iommi

#70. What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.

Ron Brackin

#71. I enjoy talking to people about what I do - about films, music, directors, and art. It's very strange, having to talk about yourself.

Stephanie Sigman

#72. All these people seemed to do was talk! It supposed it was just what biologicals did. If you wanted to feel you were still somehow in control of a ship or a fleet or even your civilisation, talking amongst yourselves seemed to be the way you convinced yourself of it. Finally

Iain M. Banks

#73. The next time you find yourself on the receiving end of a conversation assault, take a moment to have a little self-compassion. Remember that other introverts share your slow-talking tendencies, your hatred of small talk, and your disdain for the phone.

Michaela Chung

#74. YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise ... embrace the entity of yourself ... you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling.

Kaiden Blake

#75. When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Napoleon Hill

#76. When you do talk about yourself, or to yourself ... try to picture you talking to your own daughter, or your younger sister. Because you would tell your younger sister or your daughter that she is beautiful, and you wouldn't be lying. Because she is. And so are you.

Amy Poehler

#77. Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something - it creates a talking point.

Chris Arnold

#78. The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

Andrew Bird

#79. In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

Eddie Izzard

#80. If you go by other people's opinions or predictions,
you'll just end up talking yourself out of something.
If you're running down the track of life thinking that
it's impossible to break life's records,
those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.

Carl Lewis

#81. If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.

Austin Carlile

#82. 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

#83. If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

Ben Aaronovitch

#84. Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

Robert Crais

#85. Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Curtis Jackson

#86. The way you choose to think and speak about yourself (to yourself and others), IS A CHOICE! You may have spent your whole life talking about yourself in a negative way, but that doesn't mean you have to continue that path.

Miya Yamanouchi

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

RuPaul

#88. Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.

Cormac McCarthy

#89. I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

Jeff Daniels

#90. Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

Edgar Allan Poe

#91. Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!

Ron Baratono

#92. Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Ben Casnocha

#93. Hi, Jim," I said.
He didn't look at me. "The man wants to know what's going on. And he wants her at the
Keep. Now."
"Talking about yourself in the third person now, are we?" The bouda smiled.

Ilona Andrews

#94. Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

Bob Harper

#95. But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Leonard Nimoy

#96. What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!"
"Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself that. You looove me."
Max: (tries to punch him)
"Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it."
Max: (screams and runs into bathroom)

James Patterson

#97. How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail ... and out you go.

Sophie Kinsella

#98. Of course I had to talk to myself. I had no prayer God. I had no prayer doG. Why not reverse bark and froth and recite verse?

Brian Spellman

#99. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

Tom Stoppard

#100. Your voice is the wildest thing you own," Brooke says to me. "And you're giving it away. You can't see it. Your obsession is blinding you." He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. "You're losing yourself.

Terry Tempest Williams