Myself Quotes
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this, I relaxed. Our bodies do not stand still for time.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.
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When I was younger I thought I was supposed to make everyone happy. I worked hard at it, but it never worked and people didn't appreciate it anyway. So, now I make myself happy and everyone around me is happier, too!
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
