Quotes About Self

The No. 1 rule in any negotiation is don't take yourself hostage. People do this to themselves all the time by being desperate for 'yes' or afraid of 'no,' so they don't ask for what they really want. Instead, they ask for what they can realistically get. I've heard many people say, 'Well, that's a non-starter, so we won't even bring it up.'

I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.

My introduction to art history was like everybody else's. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yes, these things are great. But I don't see a reflection of myself in any of these things I'm looking at.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

I look at photos of the Sochi Olympics - even though it sometimes seems like it was just yesterday - that photo doesn't even look like me. It looks like a child. I don't even recognize myself.

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

The goal in some types of yoga is to try and reconcile all the characters within a person, and, in fact, the word 'yoga' comes from the word 'union.'

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

When I do yoga, I feel like I'm kind of coming home to myself.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I just want everyone to know you are beautiful in your own skin.

You don't need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following.

I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.

I'm just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.

I had to believe in myself from quite a young age. And I had to grow up pretty early.

I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.

God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.

I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.