Quotes About Self-perception

refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing

She rose, and walking across the floor stood gazing at herself for a long time in the brightly lit mirror above the mantelpiece. The lines in her face came out terribly; she looked old; and when a girl looks old to herself, how does she look to other people?

We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.

Regular praise for even the smallest of accomplishments is the only thing that keeps Ham-it-up Histrionics anywhere near copacetic. Don't waste your breath on criticism of any sort. Histrionics will always believe that the problem is with your perception rather than their behavior. Anyway, if you remember the praise, you can pretty much forget about everything else.

La miopía exalta la individualidad. Verme a mí perfectamente y a los otros como pobres seres borrosos.

sin este sentir trágico y humorístico que me hace ser, ante los otros, un personaje genial o un horror erguido en dos piernas nada fácil de aguantar.

Leaders are usually unaware, or at least underestimate, the motivating power of their presence. Nobody sees themselves as others see them.

beautiful; I was smart, but that was never enough, never what I wanted. I was nice, and no one cared. I was a lot of things, but beautiful? Not me.

But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself.

Cuteness can not be measured and is therefore only based on opinion. If someone calls you cute, then that means they find a cute characteristic in you that you may not necessarily see in yourself. (Unless they say it as an insult).

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I am technically not a midget. I'm a dwarf, or a little person, but I consider myself a midget. I just don't care enough to, I'm not going to waste anger on the word midget.

People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don't watch - I don't watch myself.' I don't look at it. I don't.

I'm not an actor, I'm not good looking. It's not what I do, and I don't want to be one. Maybe if I watched myself I would then try to be one.

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

I think my life is quite boring, but apparently people like watching me eat takeout, and crying about my love life.

Something that I've always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves. That's something I've always appreciated watching actors that I've looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.

I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

We can all relate at some level to being fascinated by looking at ourselves. You see it every time little kids walk into a store with surveillance and start dancing and waving at themselves.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.