Top 1200 Talking About Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

It's so important for us to be able to talk about body positivity and accepting yourself and loving yourself because we've all been in a place where we're insecure.

The youth of today has no qualms accepting and talking about their love affairs on national television. They don't bother much about their parents and talk about love openly. I feel they are selfish.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

One of my favorite things about my job is getting to hang around with people who really know what they're talking about.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking, you know?

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

I'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

I'm sure you can imagine it's pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don't know anything about it.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

With social media, so many people have anxiety and depression because of it. Of course technology is somewhat good, but it can present so many issues; more and more we're seeing what that's causing, and it's even leading to deaths. I just got finished doing a documentary called Anx with children talking about anxiety and recognizing their emotions and understanding them better. We need to let kids know it's OK to not be OK. And we need to help them be comfortable talking about it.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.

That was close,"he said, helping himself to coffee. Yeah, you almost opened the door to Morelli." I wasn't talking about Morelli. I was talking about us." That too," I said. Ranger sliced a bagel and looked for the toaster. It's broken,"I told him. He truned the boiler on and slid the bagel into the oven. That's surprisingly domestic for a man of mystery," I said to him. He looked at me over the rim of his coffee mug. "I like things hot.

Most people don't go around talking about their miscarriages. It's not really something you shout about. What's more, people often feel embarrassed or even guilty about them.

I have no issues in talking about my personal life, but I feel it takes away from my career and my characters, especially when a film is about to release.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.

Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

You guys are always going off about how much money you have. Do you realize what's going on in this world right now?' All these black rappers? African rappers? Talking about how much money they have. Do you realize what's going on in Africa right now? It's just like, you guys are disgusting. Talking about billions and billions of dollars you have. And spending it frivolously, when you know, the Motherland is suffering beyond belief right now.

So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when you exclude questions of race from that discourse, something disappears that's really central to the forms of repression that we're talking about.

I'm sick of talking about it. I wanna talk about something else. No more Jay Z questions. I answered them.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

I don't mind talking about my professional career, but I hate interviews if I have to answer a stupid question about personal matters.

I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

It's 100% important to have a dialog with yourself going all the time. That's an ego talking to you, beckoning you to do more, but it's not the voice that you need to have in order to solidify the trust relationship. You have to be really transparent with yourself and say, "What can I do now?" What can I really do and how do I bring that into the world. In other words, those self-talk, we have to constantly be auditing, is our voice inside our best friend? If it's not, you have to make it your best friend.

I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

It felt really nice to not have anybody talking about numbers, and no one is talking about ratings. From my experience, it felt like there was one person running the ship and it felt like there was space for Jenji to be at the helm. That's not what I've experienced in television before. It felt more akin to an interesting movie, where there were producers who were really excited by the work and wanted to make space for the director's vision to be sort of shared with an audience. It felt more cohesive.

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.

In a world where most billionaires are all about talking about taking care of and helping people, Jim Irsay walks it.

Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.

Don't start by talking about your products and services instead think about the people you are trying to reach

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.