Quotes About Self

No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that's my way of officially being me.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Mulan represents honour and bravery, but, for me, it's also that she's willing to discover herself and willing to go forward. I think that's important to audiences too. Not many people would be willing to do that in the first place.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I've always tried to be the same person I was before I won Wimbledon, but it has been very difficult.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I never focus on my opponent - I focus more on myself: knowing what my strengths are, where I can take the fight, how I can win the fight, and the intensity that I'm going to bring to a fight.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

I always wanted to win or lose based on who I am.

When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.

When you seek out - or seek to avoid - your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you - this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you've never seen before.

I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the room just as Sophie Winkleman.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

I'm an Ultimate Fighter winner at 170. At 155, I'm always proving myself. I have nothing to prove to any of the fans, but to myself, it's my skillset.

I'm not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.

You control your own wins and losses.

I think if we just stay focused on what we focus on, which is ourselves, playing good ballgames, trying to win every day, don't take wins with us, don't take losses with us, if we just stay with that approach the results are going to be what they're going to be.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Texas is where I found my musical self.

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.