Quotes About Self

Social media is amazing because it's opened a platform for so many people to have a voice - but that voice can get inside your head, and it can really mess with you. The only way to avoid that is to have a strong sense of self. I can't say that I have one, but I can tell you I'm working really hard on it.

There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

My mom, my aunts, and all the Nigerian women in my life have been so fierce and strong. I have only grown up around powerful women, so I have a strong sense of self and our power.

I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.

Personality for me is the strongest statement.

My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.

I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.