Quotes About Self-image

our self-talk vocabulary, Level 4 is the kind of self-talk that is needed most. It is at this level that you are painting a completed new picture of yourself, the way you really wanted to be, handing it to your subconscious, and saying, "This is the 'me' I want you to create. Forget all that bad programming I gave you in the past. This is your new program. Now, let's get to work at it.

Together, those inaccurate messages, through lifelong repetition, have created every negative belief you have about yourself today. Your self-doubts, your imagined inadequacies, most of your fears, and everything you believe incorrectly about who you are today, are the result of the repetition of inaccurate messages to your brain.

We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programed to do. The brain simply believes what you tell it the most. And what you tell it about you it will create. It has no choice.

The more you think about yourself in a certain way, the more you will think about yourself in that same certain way!

Your self-image is the way you see yourself, how you feel about yourself.

To get in touch with different aspects of your self-image, begin to ask yourself "How do I feel about myself right now?

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

She either looked like a glamorous movie star or a cheap hooker. It depended on how deeply she was panicking when she looked at her reflection. The black dress was soft and snug. It was V-necked and long-sleeved, so perfectly respectable. But Hailey had gotten her to wear one of her high-dollar bras and the boobs were not respectable at all. Even decently covered up, they demanded attention.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.

Now we find ourselves in the knowledge of what is cheating. It is cheating to treat oneself as an object, or as an image to tend to, or as an icon.

Still, I know how to use the little I have, my flat stomach and rather flatter chest, my slightly bowed, but strong and flexible legs. I produce plenty of phlegm. I have clever hands and a stare that could take the silvering off a mirror. Men flatter themselves they are original in admiring me. How confused they are when they find out they have competition. (There is no desperation like that of a lover who has decided to do you a favor, and finds himself waiting in line.)

Where do you go to get anorexia?

You're like seven feet tall, aren't you?" "I am not seven feet tall," he snapped at her as if she'd really insulted him. "I'm six-eleven." When she smirked in disbelief, he added, "And three-quarters.

I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

I was a tomboy and any time anyone says something about me being hot, it makes me giggle.

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

If the future historians were to digitally unearth our generation, they would decipher the facial expressions on the "Selfie's" as the generation of people suffering from wide spread constipation!

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.