Top 100 Think Of Myself Quotes
#1. I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
Louis L'Amour
#2. I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
John Shirley
#3. I like to think of myself as a humanitarian.
Seal
#4. Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Larry Wall
#5. I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
E.L. Doctorow
#6. Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
Patti Smith
#7. I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.
Patti Smith
#8. I shall always think of myself first and foremost ... as a hunter.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it.
John Assaraf
#10. I never think of myself as different from anyone else.
Jerusha Hess
#11. I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.
Grant Hill
#12. I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
Nick Bostrom
#13. I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.
Bob Johnson
#14. I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.
Glenn Branca
#15. I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
Jennifer Doudna
#16. I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
Val McDermid
#17. I don't even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that's really douchey. I think of myself as just like a dance commander.
Kesha
#18. I like to think of myself as a people person.
Seal
#19. I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
Christian Slater
#20. I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
Les Brown
#21. I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
Sam Shepard
#22. I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.
Beyonce Knowles
#23. When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
Jenna Fischer
#24. It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
Susan Choi
#25. I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
George Carlin
#26. I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
Stanley Donen
#27. I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.
Judy Collins
#29. I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.
Sutton Foster
#30. I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.
Jill Soloway
#31. Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
Padma Lakshmi
#32. To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
PJ Harvey
#33. I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
Jenna Bush
#34. I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
Rachel Kushner
#35. I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.
Emma Watson
#36. I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
Julian Clary
#37. I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.
Jack Black
#38. It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
Taissa Farmiga
#39. I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.
Peter Ackroyd
#40. I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'
John Carroll Lynch
#41. I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
Henry Rollins
#42. I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.
Sally Field
#43. Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.
Chris O'Dowd
#44. I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
Shay Youngblood
#45. I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.
Condoleezza Rice
#46. I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders ... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
Frank Lowy
#47. I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#48. Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#49. I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
Charlie Kaufman
#50. I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.
Chelsea Handler
#51. I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.
Tony Shalhoub
#52. I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
Jerry Seinfeld
#53. I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
Spalding Gray
#54. I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
James Cameron
#55. In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.
R.K. Narayan
#56. I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
L.A. Reid
#57. I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Ciccone
#58. I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
Natalie Merchant
#60. George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer ... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
#61. I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably contrarian.
Alfred Enoch
#62. I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
Elizabeth Strout
#63. I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
Kim Gordon
#64. I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness.
Pankaj Mishra
#65. I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.
Eric Kandel
#66. I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.
Lily Collins
#67. I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.
Adam Shankman
#68. I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
Rachel Zoe
#69. I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.
Rei Kawakubo
#70. When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.
Drake
#71. I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
Harrison Ford
#72. I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!
Kelly Brook
#73. I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.
Brent Spiner
#74. I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.
Demi Moore
#75. Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.
Debby Ryan
#76. I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.
Donalyn Miller
#77. I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.
Ben Stiller
#78. A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.
Karin Slaughter
#79. I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
Jack London
#80. It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.
Susanna Clarke
#82. I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
Abdullah Ibrahim
#83. In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.
Zooey Deschanel
#84. I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile,
Ha Jin
#85. I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.
Tom Stoppard
#86. I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
Kevin Costner
#87. I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
Peter Eisenman
#88. I like to think of myself as a 'live life to its fullest' type of guy.
Shaun Sipos
#89. I've always kept my overhead low so I could do whatever I want. I think of myself as lazy with spurts of getting a lot done. I find myself rooting against things sometimes because I get excited at the thought of a clean slate.
Sarah Silverman
#90. I think of myself as a human being.
Bruce Lee
#91. I like to think of myself as a romantic person!
Luke Bracey
#92. I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.
Paul Strand
#93. I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.
Milton Berle
#94. When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drumming. It frees you up to not care how well you do.
Trevor St. John
#95. I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand
Miley Cyrus
#96. I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
Ron Howard
#97. N the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal.
Sarah Dessen
#98. I don't really think of myself as an inspirational person.
Instead, I tend to think of myself as being more like one of those guys standing on a busy street corner, twirling a a big pointed arrow.
Except that my sign points toward Heaven.
Jose N. Harris
#99. I don't think of myself as being a very fun or outgoing person, but my mouth thinks it's fun. My mouth says a lot of things, not necessarily endorsed by me or my brain.
Mimi Strong
#100. Stop that! What were you doing, perched on the window ledge like a big chicken?"
Despite his aches and irritations, he couldn't help but grin. "I prefer to think of myself as a more noble bird, like a hawk."
"I'm sure you do. But you flew like a chicken than any hawk I've seen.
Karen Hawkins
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