Quotes About Trying To Figure Out Who You Are

#1. Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.

Francesca Lia Block

#2. The second hardest part about growing up is trying to figure out who you are. The hardest part comes after you've figured it out and the rest of the world wants to pull you in a different direction.

Jen Malone

#3. No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Aimee Teegarden

#4. You're trying to figure out who you are when you're younger. However, once you've found yourself, you run your race, and you run in your own lane.

LeCrae

#5. Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#6. CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

Roger Ailes

#7. If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Katherine Paterson

#8. I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.

Simon Toyne

#9. I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

Mary Higgins Clark

#10. I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but working at a restaurant seven days a week and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and all that kind of stuff.

Mircea Monroe

#11. College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both
while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.

Judith Martin

#12. A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world ...

Jonah Goldberg

#13. I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

#14. 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

#15. I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

Marina Keegan

#16. John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Warren Buffett

#17. When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

Gene Luen Yang

#18. When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

Daniel Radcliffe

#19. I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

Ezra Furman

#20. New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

Dylan McDermott

#21. I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

David Byrne

#22. They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Tom DeLonge

#23. Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#24. I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

Haskell Wexler

#25. Boobs are like boyfriends. You go around wishing for them and trying to figure out what you have to do to get them, and worrying about all the things you're probably doing wrong, and then one day, who knows why, you wake up and find you've got more than you wanted.

Pamela Todd

#26. Dedicated to anyone who is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be. Don't worry, friends, the universe has a plan for you; you just need to listen to what it's trying to tell you and you'll eventually end up exactly where you were always meant to be.

Jay Crownover

#27. Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Salma Hayek

#28. Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.

Taylor Swift

#29. You don't just wake up one day and decide who you are. I hope that people see that it's okay not to have labels nor label anyone else. Step back. We're all just trying to figure it out.

Rita Volk

#30. If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both of you are not wearing pants.

Miriam

#31. How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

David Levithan

#32. I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it's quite instinctive.

Sebastian Coe

#33. I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.

Les Claypool

#34. 188. I hated trying to figure out what was best morally, because so often that didn't jibe with my gut reaction.

Charlaine Harris

#35. I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

Deborah Wiles

#36. Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.

Lou Krieger

#37. The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.

Darren Criss

#38. The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

Michael Schur

#39. I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

Stephen Chbosky

#40. All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Jeff Greenwald

#41. I said yes to adventure, and then almost immediately I started trying to figure out how to get out of it.

Dave Holmes

#42. After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable ... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

Jim Cramer

#43. What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self - whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it - believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

K.P. Yohannan

#44. I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

Chris Hughes

#45. The waited stopped by and Nathan order a cup of coffee.
"No cake?" I asked, surprised.
He patted his flat stomach. "Trying to watch my figure."
I laughed. "Whatever, Captain Skittles.

Elicia Hyder

#46. Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

Michael Jeter

#47. Depressed beyond what I'd previously thought possible, I stripped, showered, and slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt and headed for my mom's, trying to figure out why a bank would charge twenty dollars for insufficient funds when they know you don't have it.

Kit Frazier

#48. I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?"

Chris Rock

#49. Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

Rob Reiner

#50. Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

Sam Altman

#51. I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Gale Norton

#52. Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. 'Most of the people are really nice,' I finally said.

John Green

#53. Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions.

Pete Carroll

#54. Make it a habit of always putting stuff in the same place. By doing this, you never waste mental energy trying to figure where you left what you searching.

Scott Bandler

#55. I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with me."
"Well, stop," she said. "I told you, figure out what's right with you.

Rainbow Rowell

#56. I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

Scarlett Johansson

#57. Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Madeleine Albright

#58. ... we have bad dreams
because our brain is trying to protect us ... If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters ... Then the real monsters don't seem so scary ... That's why we like reading scary stories.

Dan Poblocki