Quotes About Self-definition

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

You have to define growth to yourself. If you ask yourself what you want, and if the answers are big, then you have to work towards it.

Whether it's your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don't let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my actions, not on anybody's history. I'm not running from my family - I couldn't embrace my family more. But I wanted to work in an industry where I could define myself, not be defined by my grandfather's history.

I never call myself a Kennedy cousin. In fact, when I signed my contract with Bravo, I made it very clear that they were not allowed in promos to refer to me as a Kennedy cousin. I'm not that person. I don't feel it.

A writer is a writer when he says he is.

I take a stand for what I believe in. I don't let fear run my life. I confront people who have injured me. I define who I am rather then being defined by other people. I keep the promises I make to myself. I protect my physical and emotional health. I don't betray other people. I tell the truth.

But you know so many men," Ophelia said, "isn't there even one for you?" "They're all adjectives," I said, "they all make me feel modified; even a word like girl friend gives me this feeling I've been cut in half. I'd rather just be a car, not a blue car or a big one, than sit there the rest of my life being stuck with some adjective.

She likes a quote by Dolly Parton: "Decide who you are, and then do it on purpose.

No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

No one person, group, or book can—or should—tell everyone what choices are right for them, because there is no one right set of sexual choices for everyone. What is absolutely right for one person can be absolutely wrong for someone else. Only you can find out what your sexuality should be like, and define it accordingly.

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Of all the ways you can limit yourself, your own self-definition is the most powerful.

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." —Audre Lorde

You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.

You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don't surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.

They will try," Jasnah said, "to define you by something you are not. Don't let them. I can be a scholar, a woman, a historian, a Radiant. People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don't do or believe to be the prime marker of my identity. I have always rejected that, and will continue to do so.

I cannot miss my own existence—by definition. So why would I fear it?

Intentarán definirte por medio de algo que no eres -dijo Jasnah-. No lo permitas. Yo puedo ser erudita, mujer, historiadora, Radiante. La gente seguirá intentando clasificarme por lo que me vuelve ajena a ellos. La ironía es que pretenden que lo que no soy, o aquello en lo que no creo, se mi principal seña de identidad. Siempre lo he rechazado, y voy a seguir haciéndolo.

power-over as working like this: "I will define who you are and then I'll make you believe that's your own definition." This chilling explanation