Quotes About Self-perception

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the plastic surgery industry, including the association of plastic surgeons, led a campaign to convince women that having small breasts was actually a physical deficiency. According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, small breasts are not only a deformity but "a disease which in most patients results in feelings of inadequacy." Thus millions of women have been led to change their breasts, not their image of themselves.

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind." Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, "Or imagining that we do.

I always appear smarter when I dress up in my giant nipple costume. I know this because I'll overhear people say things like, "At least he's not a complete boob.

I got up and stared at myself in the bathroom mirror, first thinking about how great I looked, then thinking about how the cops weren't going to catch me.

We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.

Ninety-three percent of American motorists believe they are better-than-average drivers. In a 2007 BusinessWeek poll, 90 percent of the managers surveyed believed their performance in the workplace to be in the top 10 percent.4

We Each Know Ourselves Better Than Anyone Else Can.

My face is something between groteque and beautiful, Salai. It is something far less interesting; it is plain.

just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

I never really look past my eyes. That way I always feel pretty. Windows of the soul, you know.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

This is most people's reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good or bad by the phantom self, the ego.

A very common role is the one of victim, and the form of attention it seeks is sympathy or pity or others' interest in my problems, "me and my story." Seeing oneself as a victim is an element in many egoic patterns, such as complaining, being offended, outraged, and so on.

Ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living—

It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You

Por su naturaleza fantasmal, y a pesar de los elaborados mecanismos de defensa, el ego es muy vulnerable e inseguro, y se ve a sí mismo constantemente amenazado. Ese, a propósito, es el caso incluso si el ego exteriormente aparece muy seguro de sí mismo.