Quotes About Self-perception

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

Working in the media, on camera, you could become obsessed with your appearance and how you look. But I have tended to go the other way and I have become less obsessed as I get older.

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

We are what we believe we are at given times.

I stared so long that I got to seeing them as being dark, ugly sins in my body, smelling and dirty, but my touch face showed that I didn't give a damn. I was the toughest person in the whole world. And then inside the outline of my body a devil's face slowly took shape. It came to my chest, a dark, ugly thing with big lips that looked hot around yellow pointed teeth, eyeing me in a friednly way, as though it had been feeding on what was inside me and was trying to show how pleased it was.

But you used to know a good thing when you saw it. Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don't see anything at all.

When I was in the game, I had this vision of myself

off. I always went by "Tray" or "Crazy Tray.

La persona que tú mismo sientes ser, de acuerdo con los Sufis, es una falsa persona que no tiene una realidad verdadera.

El hombre (tal como él se imagina que es) es, en general, una posibilidad, no un hecho.

I am son of man and woman, so they tell me. That astounds me . . . I thought myself more!

However, throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. For my part, I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

You cannot deceive the mirror

As for cognitive empathy there is, it appears, no shortage of people in the world who can unwittingly offend, misunderstand and steamroller over the delicate signals of others, all while maintaining the self-perception that they are unsurpassedly sensitive to subtle social cues.

The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one's feelings of self-worth and one's capacity to be a political agent.