Quotes About Self-expression

My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

You could say I'm so manly I don't even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions

There is no hint here that preaching is thought of primarily as self-expression of subjective experience or feeling-disclosure or autobiography or `telling one's story' so as to neglect Scripture."275 It is the Word that is to be preached.

If you try to chase it, if you try to follow trends and anticipate what the next thing is going to be, you will fail. You just have to leave it, you have to go with what it is. You have to be true, you have to be honest.

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

You shouldn't be embarrassed by the things you do because that's who you are. Your quirks are what separate you from all of the dull, regular and boring people who all look and act the same as everyone else.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.

Perhaps there were two areas he didn't go into: clothes, and his relationship with women.

I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude.

I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.

Fashion and beauty is a reflection of what's on the inside. And if you're genuine, they match up. The core of who you are will be the same.

When we get up in the morning, what we put on is very much a reflection of how we see the world and how we want it to see us.

If you take care of yourself and try to look nice, it's reflective of how you feel about yourself.

People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.

I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.

The way I see queerness now is that, best case scenario, another queer person reflects it back at you. Worst case scenario, which is what happened to me, is having people say, Well, you like Michelle Branch, so you must be gay.'