Yourself Quotes

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.