Quotes About Self-expression

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

It's strange: I love pop music, and I really can enjoy it, but I didn't feel like the characters within pop music - like when Madonna sings 'Crazy For You', for instance, I don't feel like I would ever be the character she takes on in that song. I would never feel... I don't have that confidence in me.

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.

I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

We're all flawed. Confident people don't hide their flaws; they laugh at them, because they don't care what you think. Those flaws work for them. They don't have to work for you.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. —BILL COSBY

stick to what excites you no matter what people say. It's your life, live it the way you know is right for you.

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets

2. I'm just caging my monkey mind on paper so I can get on with my fucking day.

There are no real rules, so make rules that work for you.

A. H. Almaas: "Ultimately, your gift to the world is being who you are. It is both your gift and your fulfillment.

there is only one you, and no one can do things exactly the way you do. Never worry about the competition.

often in people's 30s or 40s, a stage where you begin crafting your own language for what you do as an increasingly "strong poet"—you make your craft your own and view your life as more self-expression than simply playing out other people's roles for you.

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

By focusing inward on yourself as a writer instead of outward on what you think readers will want to read, you'll end up creating the best and most original work, and that one-in-a-thousand person who happens to love it will end up finding their way to you.

When you're creative, you render competition obsolete, because there is only one you, and no one can do things exactly the way you do. Never worry about the competition. When you're creative, you can, in fact, cheer others on with the full knowledge that their success will undoubtedly be your own.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." –Frederick Douglass

job descriptions as self-descriptions.

You learn the secret of this business, which is there's no secret. Be yourself.