Quotes About Self-image

It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see.

When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me, working out is more about keeping my temperament great. Jujitsu and lifting keep me very even.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Tracy assessed Shirley Berkman to be midfifties trying to look midthirties.

Shaving your head—the balding man's solution to hair loss

face. "She had implants on her chin and her cheekbones. She's also had her nose altered." "Plastic surgery?" Tracy said. "Not the kind you're thinking of," Funk corrected. "This is facial structure alteration." "Someone trying to change their appearance," Tracy

Not for the first time, he consoled himself that his hair looked the same whether brushed or unbrushed.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is. (Proverbs 23:7 NASB)

He noticed his voice shook a little, and he didn't like it. American males have their standards, after all.

buying him clothes to improve his self-image • finding a therapist for him and begging him to go • financing expensive hobbies to help him use his time better • going through disruptive geographic relocations because "he's not happy here" • giving him half or all of our property and possessions so he won't feel inferior to us • providing him with a place to live so that he can feel secure

The beautiful thing is that you can change your self-image, just like you can change everything else in your life if it is not serving to enhance it.

Even if you don't feel like it, look in the mirror and laugh for a couple of minutes.

Your self-image is a governor of sorts. It will never let you act in a way that is inconsistent with it.

alive, your life will be transformed. You see, the words you say to yourself affect your self-image and your self-image determines what actions you take. For

La autoimagen es una especie de profecía que se cumple por sí sola.

You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. The popular jock. The mysterious new girl. But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. And I'd rather be misremembered. Please, Ezra, misremember me.

The fake is a person who has rebuilt himself, with a view to occupying another social position than the one that would be natural to him.

Each side possessed a lurid, distorted view of the other, buttressed by an idealized sense of itself.

He felt like Rambo even though he was built like Dumbo

In his essay for Wired, Thompson writes that "we're learning to live in front of a crowd." That's precisely the problem. The strain of living in front of a crowd, 24/7, 365 days a year, is what causes real celebrities to fall apart. Remember Britney Spears shaving her head and attacking that car with an umbrella? Spears was 25 years old at the time. She wasn't a teenager. She was (or was supposed to be) a mature adult. She was the mother of two young children.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.