Quotes About Self-perception

I'm a dull person.

I'm a smart guy, I like to think of myself as a smart guy, but sometimes I go out there and do a lot of dumb stuff.

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with it, but I dyed my hair black.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

When I was eleven years old, I basically looked the same as I do now.

I see myself as a power puncher, but for some reason, I can never sell myself that I'm one of the elite.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this is embarrassing.

Emotionally, I don't feel like a trailblazer at all.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

I didn't think anybody else in the entire world looked like me.

I actually hate being called an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I don't feel famous personally, and I feel like when most people get to know me, they're like, 'Oh, she's just the same as everybody else.'

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

Apperception," as it is presently conceived, means "introspective self-consciousness," "the mind's perception of itself as a conscious agent," "a condition in which we are conscious of our own existence and consciousness of our own perceptions," "perception of the sum of things," and "the recognition of truths" [emphasis added].

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

A veces uno se cree incompleto y es solamente joven.

Or else, given that there is world that side of the window and world this side, perhaps the "I," the ego, is simply the window through which the world looks at the world.

Un uomo può avere il sentimento di una propria altissima intelligenza, che non dia altro segno di sè fuori di quel suo forte sentimento.

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness