Quotes About Self

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

People work better when they are afforded to be themselves

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.