Quotes About Self-perception

Don't take this personally, Kit, but your hands are really big. Did you hassle steer?" "No steer," I say. "Only small-handed men.

We are often our own harshest critics

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves make us who we are.

Non pretendo di essere capito, ognuno di noi è l'enigma di se stesso.

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

My life isn't as bad as I make out and sometimes I think it's all in my head, but I can't help it.

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?

I bored myself to tears with the daytime television drama of confrontation (I've been wronged!). I winced at sluggish morning half-memories of wearing wrongness like a lampshade on my head (I'm mentally ill!).

Our bodies made us shiver in fear and disgust. We looked in the mirror and prepared ourselves to be horrified.

Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

Perseguida pelo medo da velhice, deixei envelhecer a nossa relação. Ocupada em me fazer bela, deixei escapar a verdadeira beleza, que apenas mora no desnudar do olhar. O lençol esfriou, a cama se desaventurou. Esta é a diferença: a mulher que tu encontraste aí, em África, fica bela apenas para ti. Eu ficava bela para mim, que é um outro modo de dizer: para ninguém.

Os mulatos só são pretos quando lhes convém. (...) - Não sou preto! - Então? - Sou extremamente mulato!

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am, and either I am needed as that or I'm not suitable anyway.

rare indeed was the soul who remained unaffected by his own public image.

94 per cent of us think we do above-average work.

Margrethe slips into history even as I turn back to Bohr. And yet how much more difficult still it is to catch the slightest glimpse of what's behind one's eyes. Here I am at the centre of the universe, and yet all I can see are two smiles that don't belong to me.

Boys must find ways to compete and see themselves as performing well. If they do not, if society does not provide them with these opportunities, they'll compete against society itself, abusing their community and themselves.

and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Studies show that most people rate themselves well above average when it comes to ethical behavior. In fact, a newsmagazine poll asked people whom they thought would get to heaven. Bill Clinton was a toss-up, getting 52 percent backing from respondents. Former basketball star Michael Jordan did better, at 62 percent. Mother Teresa topped the two American men with 79 percent. But she was not the highest. That honor went to "yourself," with 87 percent.