Top 1200 Defining Myself Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

I'm in competition with myself, and I'm always going to challenge myself.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.

I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent

I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I think I did realize that early on, and then I went through a fun phase where I was figuring out who I was and the different sides of myself. I think like most women, I bought into a certain ideal of beauty that I didn't quite fit into, and I tried to pretzel myself and alter myself to be what I was told is beautiful, and then I realized that you are in control of what you think is beautiful.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

If I produce myself, I'm gonna exploit no one - just myself.

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

I want to allow myself to display myself to people.

I watch a lot of myself, just to critique myself.

I don't take myself seriously, I don't think of myself as a star.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

I have seen myself pale and I don't look like myself.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

I only focus on myself. I want to improve myself.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

Marketing is your battle plan for the sales team - it's about defining the landscape. Marketing is doing cohort analysis and understanding exactly what possible customers are out there. It's understanding not only which customers will respond to what messages, but also how customers will become clients if you include certain product features.

Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

When I look at a script, I basically ask myself, 'Do I believe the relationships? Are they people like you and me?' I have to be able to see myself in it.

I still pinch myself when I see myself on 'Match of the Day' - it's at times like that you realise how far you've come.

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

I respect myself. I have very high expectations for myself.

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

I travel by myself a lot. Most of the time I'm by myself.

To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

I just need to build myself up and get myself in the right place and if I do that I'm going to play great darts all the time.

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

In fashion, general people will look to the piece itself. [Some designers] concentrate on, 'How can I make this seam look special?' or 'What am I going to do with that button so it looks interesting?' I am not interested in that. At the moment, I am more interested in the shape and the form. I have a big desire to make clothes without defining them.