Top 1200 Working On Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self by working on the external manifestation of that thing in the world. And in fact, there may be no other way. You can sit in meditation for a long time and be blind to huge wounds in yourself, and it's only when you're engaging with the world that the wounds become visible, externalized.

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

When you come from the wrestling world, you are taught to do everything for yourself: market yourself, plan for yourself, design for yourself.

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

It makes a huge difference in how you feel, the way your costume holds you. When you look at yourself in the mirror, it makes you feel a certain way. Actors like to talk a lot about working from the inside out, but there's a lot to be said also about working from the outside in. It can be extremely helpful.

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

Working with Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver was just a dream. A bit of a pinch-yourself moment.

When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason.

Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.

The experience I've had with Strikeforce kickboxing, K1, Strikeforce MMA, working with ESPN, working with Showtime, working with Japanese television, working with fighter camps from all over the world has given me a unique perspective.

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. But that can be quite scary. The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself. I enjoy seeing what the chemistry is between the people you might be working with.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

The risk of working with people you don't respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are incosistent with your own; the risk of compromising what's important; the risk of doing something that fails to express-or even contradicts--who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all--the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

I find it very hard to be disciplined. But working on something is a real reason to test yourself and go for it all the way.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

It was great fun working with Pierce [Brosnan]. He taught me a lot in terms of professionalism and how to take care of yourself on these action movies. They're fairly long shoots and they're fairly physical and fairly emotional, so you have to maintain yourself and make sure you can make it all the way through. That's something I learned from him.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

Start working your plan today to set yourself free tomorrow.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

When you're working with movie stars, part of the deal is that, if they have something to say, you'd better listen. You don't have to absolutely listen and not talk, but there is another creative force at work, and to be successful working with movie stars, you have to bring that force to work for you. You have to find something that's comfortable for them, and at the same time, that's in the parameters of what you're trying to do yourself.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.

I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.

There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of that, when you find yourself not fitting the way things are designed to be, it's a simple matter of just learning how you ought to be and working to restore the way things are supposed to be.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

It's good to keep working hard, pushing yourself, and, by scoring goals, you get the reward.

My top tip for looking your best is to dress for yourself, not for anyone else. Even working with a stylist, I wouldn't wear anything she told me to wear unless I was comfortable with it myself. That said, it's good to push yourself out of your style comfort zone every so often to make sure you try new things.

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working for ordinary working families and working-class families. And I think that's important. That's what I've spoken about.

There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.