Quotes About Self-perception

Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

I havent been overweight, just a well-built North Indian body type but while no one was telling me to lose weight, I was constantly pushing myself hard to be thinner.

Thomas Rhett Akins doesn't sound like a rock star name. I didn't leave Akins out to convince people my dad wasn't my dad. I've always been called Thomas Rhett.

I hated being Gareth Thomas. I hated the man I looked at in the mirror.

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Even though I am from Jersey, not to put Jersey down, I like Jersey, but I think I'm more cultured.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

I never thought of myself as handsome.

I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.

I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I wasn't worried about myself. I didn't consider the possibility that either of the men could catch me. I was all-star varsity soccer. I was Braveheart in Urban Outfitters. I was Supergirl. I was seriously delusional.

Many research findings show that most Americans already hold inflated opinions of themselves.

I have learnt that how someone sees you is really none of your business; it's the film they're playing of you, nothing to do with you, so move away from the building.

In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure."

The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.

By making our people in the Western Hemisphere hate Africa, we ended up hating ourselves. We hated our African characteristics. We hated our African identity. We hated our African features. So much so that you would find those of us in the West who would hate the shape of our nose. We would hate the shape of our lips. We would hate the color of our skin and the texture of our hair. This was a reaction, but we didn't realize that it was a reaction.