Quotes About Self

I think it's a loss of energy to be worrying about other people's issues.

I love the whole mess of family life. I love having the focus elsewhere and worrying about the kids as opposed to myself. I love both the chaos and the structure that family brings.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

I've always said that your attitude is your best friend and your worst enemy.

Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.