Quotes About Self-perception

Freedom, for Hegel, has to do with identification—how one sees oneself (as citizen, as rebel, as stoic, as master, as slave), it is not the political question of societal restraints and duties.

Stalin, as many in the party soon began to perceive, was acting in the manner of a political boss. But we should take care not to assume that he saw himself in this light.

There is no indication that he thought of himself as a "machine politician" in our sense of that phrase.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

If you see yourself as an object, then others will too. An ethereal, dreamlike air will heighten the effect.

We humans like to believe that we are consistent and mature, and that we have reasonable control over our lives. We make decisions based on rational considerations, on what will benefit us the most. We have free will. We know who we are, more or less. But in one particular aspect of life these self-opinions are all easily shattered - when we fall in love.

You are well muscled for such a short man, Matrim Cauthon.

Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs and pretended to be a digit.

Sobald jemand im dem Rufe steht, ein Napoleon zu sein, gewinnt er auch seine verlorenen Schlachten.

A person never finds himself a total coward, because if something frightens him he runs just far enough away to consider himself a hero again!

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...

No matter what anyone is saying to you from outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.

I was tired of looking in the mirror and not liking what I saw.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

Folks say I'm good, he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones—like Mistress Blythe here—wouldn't show up so well.

Me gustan las cosas bellas y odio que el espejo no refleje algo hermoso. Me hace sentir muy triste, igual que cuando veo algo horrible.

I can bear it when other people have a bad opinion of me but it hurts too much when I have a bad opinion of myself.

Don't be reviling yourself. None of us is such fine judges of what to do.

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

Naturally I thought she was lying, but I soon came to realize that Hope—along with every other anorexically skinny girl in the office, and most of the guys—was able to accurately evaluate other people's weight. It was just when it came time to look in the mirror that everyone genuinely saw a wildebeest staring back.

Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?

He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.

I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.