Quotes About Self-perception

You exaggerate your own reactions.

I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.

I thought I was funny as a kid.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.

My whole head is like I've had a face lift.

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

And you look beautiful, " she added."I look like a cake.""But a beautiful cake.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

It's funny how loving yourself is being full of yourself, and hating yourself is being attention seeking.

The self is seen as a psychological fiction, which means that its relationships are essentially fiction.

We can change not only our behavior but how we define ourselves. When we put ourselves in a box marked "That's not me," we ensure that we'll never get out of it.

If I change I am "inauthentic." Many of us have a misguided belief that how we behave today not only defines us but represents our fixed and constant selves, the authentic us forever. If we change, we are somehow not being true to who we really are. This belief triggers stubbornness. We refuse to adapt our behavior to new situations because "it isn't me.