Quotes About Self-perception

He could look at himself in a mirror and tell himself that he was one of the most powerful and dangerous men in the world... He could feel that he was a god in disguise.

The secretary was a good-looking girl—or would have been if she'd given herself a chance. Some discouraging experience in her background had made her feel that she couldn't be bothered with sex appeal, and so she slicked her hair back, used no make-up, and hated men.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

After a while, when you are as ugly as I am, as ugly as women can be, then, as I say, after a while the feeling, the idiotic feeling that you are beautiful, grows slowly in one again. It grows like a cabbage. And then, when the feeling is grown, another man sees you and thinks you are beautiful and it is all to do over. Now I think I am past it, but it still might come. You are lucky, 'guapa', that you are not ugly

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Vamos, I'm not ugly. I was born ugly. All my life I have been ugly. You, Inglés, who know nothing about women. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare

On his way back to the living room he passed a mirror in the dining room and looked in it. His face looked strange. He smiled at the face in the mirror and it grinned back. He winked at it and went on. It was not his face but it didn't make any difference.

The human animal is remarkably adept at seeing itself as the hero, no matter what the story.

Told him I was one-sided. Bigger on one side than the other, which is a deliberate, calculated falsehood: I'm the same.

The problem is that monsters rarely see themselves that way.

Joe Vik knew what he was. He saw that he was a monster in human skin and maintained that facade for as long as he could.

happy now that I had kept my hair appointment last week and had the stylistic cut. I almost had canceled it because I hadn't felt the need to look pretty for some time. I was settling on a 'this will do for now' attitude, not only about my hair and my makeup, but my clothes, and even the way I was taking care of the house and shopping for food. One might even say I was down for the count just before I was rescued.

I am arrogant,' he once said of himself in a perceptive piece of self-analysis, 'but not conceited.

Ludzie lubi? wymy?la? potwory i potworno?ci. Sami sobie wydaj? si? wtedy mniej potworni.

Ludzie (...) lubi? wymy?la? potwory i potworno?ci. Sami sobie wydaj? si? wtedy mniej potworni (...) Wtedy jako? l?ej im si? robi na sercu. I ?atwiej im ?y?.

A la gente le gusta inventarse monstruos y monstruosidades. Entonces se parecen menos monstruos a sí mismos. [...]Entonces, como que se les quita un peso de encima. Y les resulta más fácil vivir.

I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten. And being aware of this, I usually furnish you with precise instructions.

Die Leute [...] denken sich gern Ungeheuer und Ungeheuerlichkeiten aus. Sie selbst kommen sich dann weniger ungeheuerlich vor.

A las gente le gusta inventarse monstruos y monstruosidades, entonces parecen menos monstruosos asi mismos

I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten.

things: your perspective or beliefs about yourself, and a quality we can call "like-ability." Like-ability can be defined as the ability to build rapport so that others listen to you. We listen to the people we like.

I feel kind of normal," I say. "Normal but a little crazy.