Quotes About Self-perception

there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.

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Your Inner Self-Concept This category can be pretty difficult to achieve in optimal proportions in our culture. Your inner self-concept involves your beliefs about the invisible energy and intelligence that is the most significant portion of your being.

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

Now I am too beautiful to be set free.

In other words, he saw himself as simply doing at home what his fellow Europeans had long been doing abroad.

You wish your face was more—more, something. You don't know what. Maybe not more. Less. Less flat. Less delicate. More rugged. Your jawline more defined. This face that feels like a mask, that has never felt quite right on you. That reminds you, at odd times, and often after two to four drinks, that you're Asian. You are Asian! Your brain forgets sometimes. But then your face reminds you.

Even now, as Special Guest Star, even here, in your own neighborhood. Two words that define you, flatten you, trap you and keep you here. Who you are. All you are. Your most salient feature, overshadowing any other feature about you, making irrelevant any other characteristic. Both necessary and sufficient for a complete definition of your identity:

the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer

But at the same time, I'm guilty too. Guilty of playing this role, letting it define me, internalizing the role so completely that I've lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins.

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

I am a special snowflake. Just like all the other special snowflakes. Does it ever seem like there are more super heroes than there used to be?

I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.

I think I have a mental nappy attitude.

Sometimes we disfigure ourselves by what we think about ourselves rather than by what we do to ourselves. Some people have been disfigured emotionally because of what others did to them when they were children. Sometimes our memory banks become warehouses of beliefs and feelings that cripple our progress.

Like many from Lazy America, she is short, and some people have called her fat, but those people haven't talked much after that.

I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he.

Why is it that girls think boys will notice them if they're loud anyway.