Yourself Quotes

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.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Remember to always be yourself.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Helping others is like helping yourself.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.