Self Quotes - Page 382

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto ‘how you can turn this into something beautiful’ pretty remarkable things start to happen.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.