Quotes About Self

It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you put on: if you're a stylish individual, you're going to preserve that.

I am not at all stylish. For me, style is a state of mind and individuality.

I kind of say I am a stylish geek, to make myself feel better, but I am definitely a geek.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons' work is the crucible of identity. Every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.