Myself Quotes
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I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.
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I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.
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I've never looked at myself and thought "Oh yeah, I'm sexy." I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way.
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I tell myself to keep my hands up and my chin down and go out there and bury this mother fucker.
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Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
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I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'
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I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.
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I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.
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I love being by myself.
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I hear a lot of things about myself. I hear that I'm jet-set and this and that, and I'm really not. I live a very quiet life.
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I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'
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I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.
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I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.
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I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.
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It is a good thing to have someone I already know because I know I won't be by myself.
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I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.
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I even made love to myself once. Uhh, I wasn't suppose to tell you that.
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The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.
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I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.
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Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
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The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
