Quotes About Self

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn't feel desperate for someone to find me.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It's just about learning the art of it for yourself.

And I've never really been a makeup pro.

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer.

The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.

CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.

I already am a product.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.