Yourself Quotes

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

~ Rickie Fowler

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

~ Elon Musk

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

~ Zygmunt Bauman

A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.

~ David Rusenko

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

~ Ralph Ellison

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

~ William Wiley

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

~ Greg Lemond

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

~ Michael Keaton

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

~ Bo Jackson

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

~ Joseph Campbell

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

~ Jeff Bridges

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

~ Akon

All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives in the imaginative world. If, on the physical plane, you imagine yourself to have done something you actually have not done, you will soon be persuaded by the facts of the physical world that this is not so. This is not the case in astral space.

~ Rudolf Steiner

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.

~ Mary Roach

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

~ Ace Frehley

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

~ Martin Gore

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

~ Gary Coleman

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

~ Michel De Montaigne

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

~ Joel Osteen

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You've got to put in the work. You've got to grind. You've got go through the struggle, and you've got to get it.

~ Conor Mcgregor

I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.

~ Caroline Winberg

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

~ Emraan Hashmi

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

~ Ralph Marston

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

~ Virat Kohli

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

~ Chanakya

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

~ Adam Grant

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

~ Colin Powell

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

~ Sally Hawkins

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

~ Gillian Anderson

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

~ Ben Quayle

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

~ Angela Davis

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

~ Chuck Jones

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

~ Mary Kay Ash

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

~ Kim Kardashian

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.

~ Stephen Colbert

Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.

~ Alanis Morissette

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

~ Julia Roberts

I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.

~ Jill Soloway