Yourself Quotes

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

Always educate yourself.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.