Quotes About Self-expression

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought. Self-expression is never an issue, for, wittingly or unwittingly, all stories, honest and dishonest, wise and foolish, faithfully mirror their maker, exposing his humanity … or lack of it.

I don't want to go running down some career path—supposedly such a grand enterprise. What's so grand about it: people acquiring crooked backs at an early age from stooping at undersized desks, wrinkled hands, pale faces, mutilated workday trousers, trembling legs, fat bellies, sour stomachs, bald spots upon their skulls, bitter, snappish, leathery, faded, insipid eyes, ravaged brows and the consciousness of having been conscientious fools. No thank you!

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

The chain round my neck gleamed in the daylight too. It looked more like gold this morning, but if I stirred it with a finger it had a queer iridescent quality not at all like real gold, not that I had much acquaintance with the stuff. I had always favored plastic and rhinestones.

She was unambiguously herself.

A deveni egoist presupune s? recunoÅŸti c? valoarea ta e mare, c? aptitudinile tale sunt demne de a fi exprimate, c? împlinirea fiinÅ£ei tale este tot atât de important? ca a oric?rei alte persoane ÅŸi c? tot ce ai mai bun este cel mai grozav dar pe care-l poÅ£i oferi lumii ÅŸi, mai ales, celor dragi.

Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.

The saddest thing is that this is often all we understand about ourselves: that so often, we live our neighbor's life, instead of our own.

Success lies in being true to yourself—and living life on your own terms.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." —Steve Jobs

La única manera de lidiar con este mundo sin libertad es volverte tan absolutamente libre que tu mera existencia sea un acto de rebelión».

Get into the arena, forget about the critics and play big with the gifts of your days. If you listen to your critics, you will never do anything great with your life. Life is short and the years will slip away very quickly, like grains of sand passing through your fingers on a hot day at the beach. You were meant to shine and let your talents see the light of day.

Se esfumó mi necesidad de complacer, de ser querido y de seguir al rebaño mientras me traicionaba a mí mismo.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Ä°stediÄŸi zaman gözyaÅŸlar?n? içine ak?t?p gülümseyebilme yeteneÄŸine sahip olmuÅŸtu.Bu yüzden de gözyaÅŸlar?n?n gerçek olup olmad???n? o da anlam?yordu. Oscar'l? bir oyuncu gibiydi.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many subjects repressed, refracted, blinded as to their true sexuality, because they are unwilling to let go of a stereotype.

If only we could put our minds in plaster casts like our legs! But I cannot keep from thinking from speaking; no director is there to interrupt the interior movie I keep making of myself, someone to shout *Cut!* Volubility is a specifically human misery; I am language mad; no one listens to me, no one looks at me, but...I go on talking

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight.