Quotes About Self-perception

Basil Pennington suggests that the core of the false self is the belief that my value depends on what I have, what I can do and what others think of me.

Naturally I compensated my inner insecurity by an outward show of security, or—to put it better—the defect compensated itself without the intervention of my will. That is, I found myself being guilty and at the same time wishing to be innocent.22

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

Differences in desirability create havoc in at least two fundamental ways. The first centers around misperceptions. A man who is a 6 but thinks he's an 8 will be utterly irritated when the woman who's an 8 whom he's trying to chat up rejects his advances. Although women and men both can err in their self-perceived mate value, research shows that men are more likely than women to be overconfident in a variety of domains

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.

Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it.

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!

If you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.

I felt like I was hobbling, like one oof the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have looked the part.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

I don't know if I'm the husky guy, but I'm the sexy guy who's a good kisser .

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.