Yourself Quotes
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Napoleon Hill -
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
Sam Claflin
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
Harold Pinter -
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
Ian Mckellen -
How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
Mackenzie Davis -
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis -
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
Oprah Winfrey -
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. Guest -
How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
Nate Mendel Foo Fighters -
Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
Rachel Stevens -
I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.
Natalie Martinez -
Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
Bat for Lashes
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
Harold Bloom -
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
Natalie Merchant -
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli -
With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.
Hans Zimmer -
You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.
M. J. Rose -
I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
BeBe Winans
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
Tatiana Maslany -
The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
Hannibal Buress -
I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
Octavia Spencer -
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
Salman Rushdie