Quotes About Self-perception

Worship your intellect, being seing as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge og being found out. And so on.

The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face? Brutus. No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, 140 But by reflection, by some other things.

Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?

Then he undressed and brushed his teeth. He examined his face in the slightly tarnished looking-glass above the wash-basin. He was fifty-seven, but according to this reflection older. His face would seem younger if he put on a bit of weight; chubbiness could be made to cover a multitude of sins. But he didn't want that; he liked being thought of as beyond things.

When it came to beautiful women, he had always seen himself as the plaintiff, a seller wandering ineptly through a buyer's market.

if you know yourself to be honorable, strong, brave, fair-minded, generous, clear-headed, or articulate, or to have any number of other good characteristics, that is the image you will project, and that image forms the basis for the decisions you make.

Si fuera campeón [...] ni inventaría historias porque entonces la historia sería yo.

Sin el amor, soy otra vez aquel inadaptado al que le da lo mismo que le llamen rufián, desvergonzado, vándalo, vago, bueno para nada.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

We're all the heroes of our own tales. Even villains.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

There certainly has remained with me the feeling that my identity is entirely illusory, and that by losing it, I have lost nothing, except something, except everything.

sharp nose and thick dark hair that spills over her shoulders. I've always admired her looks. I'm so pale and uninteresting in comparison,

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

To get mad at being called a "little boy" is a proof that you indeed are one

Por qué tanta gente cree que su vida es única y yo creo que la mía es igual a la de cualquiera?

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

It is important to recognize that the mechanism of projection does not just apply to our shadow side. We also project onto other people the things we like about ourselves yet have a hard time acknowledging. Thus we see in those people our own inner beauty, our own creative talent, our own intelligence, and so on.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Bob is just my name, Bobby is my job.