Quotes About Self-perception

If I was younger and I got a new tracksuit, hat, trainers, you couldn't tell me I didn't look good. I thought I was dressed up.

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

I transform when I work, but on a daily basis, I really don't pay that much attention to my looks.

In my head I feel like I'm a female transgender to male but also like a drag queen.

Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.

We truly are fearfully and wonderfully made. But sometimes our brains operate on false alarms.

Unfortunately, all of the stories being told to Blacks in America, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean have made Blacks worldwide feel low, weak, crazy, backward, and powerless. So low that the storyteller has set the conditions for Blacks to be robbed of all of their stuff and too stupid to recognize it.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sometimes the person everyone is afraid of alarming or offending has a slightly less fixed idea about what sort of person they are, and they're neither alarmed nor offended. Unaware that others have carved their likes and dislikes in the psychological equivalent of stone, they dare to make exceptions to their own rules in a way that their nearest and dearest might not.

ceux que l'on croit être le plus pleins de mésestime d'eux-mêmes et d'humilité, sont généralement le plus pleins d'ambition et d'envie

I had always liked my anorexic reflection. It meant seeing the parts instead of the whole. Each connection, each articulation of muscle, skin, and bone made explicit. Gert said that we all had distorted images of ourselves. Either fatter or skinnier than we really were. She said we hated our bodies, hated ourselves. I had never thought so.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.

Those with a perpetual victim mindset tend to create the situations from which they suffer.

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

Today I trust me. I trust in my perceptions. Today I will live my own truth that glows within, a life of no deceptions.