Quotes About Self-expression

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.

If by weirdo he meant that Nick didn't play grab-ass with the wannabes on the street corner, didn't yank at his crotch and call girls bitches, didn't wear oversized jerseys and pretend to be a gangsta all day, then yeah, Nick had to agree.

Abitha laughed loud and hard, realized it was more than this bawdy song, it was being able to let her hair down, to be her vulgar, sassy self in front of someone again, even if that someone might be the Devil himself.

You think you're so cool." "As a matter of fact, you have absolutely no idea what I think," Dolores said. "But if you'll allow me to rephrase that comment in the form of a question, the answer is that in fact I do not think I am 'so cool' in the least. For all I know, I may be cool, or perhaps I may be irretrievably nerdy. But that's for other, wiser, trendier minds to decide.

make my decisions based on what I intended, not just on what someone else wanted me to do or what I thought would please them.

The long-term impact of being whupped—then forced to hush and even smile about it—turned me into a world-class people pleaser for most of my life. It would not have taken me half a lifetime to learn to set boundaries and say "no" with confidence had I been nurtured differently.

I have established a very good rule, which I pass on to you: Never do anything just because other people do it.

To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.

Honestly expressing yourself...it is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool...or I can make all kind of phony things, you see what I mean, blinded by it or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself...now that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Never try to copy a successful personality.

Always be yourself. Express yourself, have faith in yourself. Don't go looking for a successful personality and just duplicate it.

QUESTION: What is the best way for a person to learn Chinese gung fu? BRUCE LEE: By being himself. The main thing is teaching a man to do his thing, to just be himself. The individual is more important than the style. If a person is awkward, he should not try to be agile. I'm against trying to impose a style on a man. This is an art, an expression of a man's own self.

Art is the expression of the self; the more complicated and restrictive a method is, the lesser the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

I never wrote completely in that style again. Once the record was released, I heard all the Dylan comparisons, so I steered away from it. But the lyrics and spirit of "Greetings" came from an unselfconscious place. Your early songs emerge from the moment when you're writing with no sure prospect of ever being heard. Up until then, it's been just you and your music. That only happens once.

He said: "My mother washed out my mouth with soap because of all the bad words I used, and these had been pretty bad, I admit. What she did not know was that by washing out all the bad words, she also washed out all the good ones." In therapy all these bad words were freed, and

Command the space of your beingness – a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

When Dr. Jung said we must be able to look forward in old age to the next day and to look forward to the great adventure that is ahead, he was making life's "imperative to grow" personal. As long as we are alive, we must be able to dream of the future, of a better world or better ways of life. We are also invited by our greater Self to dream new dreams of creativity and fresh ways of expressing ourselves, as many great artists have into their nineties.