Quotes About Self-image

I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.

My family will occasionally take the mick out of the way I move and I always think Thats nonsense, I move like a gazelle: smoothly and swiftly and there is strength and glamour in the way I move. Then you see it on TV and they repeatedly show you bobbing off to do some task and you just look like a marionette.

I could try to be the most tattooed person ever, but I don't think that's ever gonna happen.

The thing people see about me is my tattoos more than anything, but the color aspect does not help.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

And really, half of beauty is attitude. You feel sexy, they you are sexy.

Normally, I am a little insecure about myself without a shirt on, as my days of being attractive are now behind me.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

The cops of America are poster-boys of low self-esteem. Their uniforms, silly hats, and sparkling patent leather girdles freighted down with shiny handcuffs, walkie-talkies, and spray canisters of Mace apparently do not make them feel secure enough, so they always add the hostile interrogation to make sure that the accosted citizens know who is in charge.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

once a person's self-image is altered, all sorts of subtle advantages become available to someone who wants to exploit that new image.

And once you've got a man's self-image where you want it, he should comply naturally with a whole range of your requests that are consistent with this view of himself.

Notice that all of the foot-in-the-door experts seem to be excited about the same thing: You can use small commitments to manipulate a person's self-image; you can use them to turn citizens into "public servants," prospects into "customers," prisoners into "collaborators." And once you've got a man's self-image where you want it, he should comply naturally with a whole range of your requests that are consistent with this view of himself.

Not all commitments affect self-image, however. There are certain conditions that should be present for a commitment to be effective in this way: they should be active, public, effortful, and freely chosen.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!

The recreation of yourself in the eyes of others is a powerful process that must not be left to chance.

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The man should have grown a beard to hide that narrow jaw. It made his head look like a forester's splitting wedge.