Top 1200 Inspirations Being Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.

(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.

My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself.

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

I'm being called 'Messi with gloves?' I think he's had a great level over many years. You shouldn't compare yourself with that.

It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

The frustrations and joys of parenthood are just hard to understand until you have a kid... the constant fight you're having with yourself, like loving being with your kid but also being kind of bored and wanting to look at your iPhone - it's kind of an interesting thing that's hard to write about before you've experienced it.

Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons of your life story.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.

You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

Bringing your intimate relationship into the public arena and yet not being able to express yourself freely can really suffocate you.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.

When you realize yourself as completely empty and devoid of all form... this is wisdom, When you realize yourself as the fullness of love overflowing itself without object... this is bliss, And when you are aware of yourself incarnate in the appearance of form... this is leela.

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel, all of the time! The clothes are very strong and sexy - quite Amazonian. And you feel like that yourself when you're wearing the clothes.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.