Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

I think the desire to be with someone beautiful...I just had such a different experience growing up. To be in a position where you're lauded for things that you don't own - and don't think of yourself as - it's so bizarre.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

The whole press thing and who you are in the media, or what you have to project yourself to be, it feels very much like another person. People say to me, "Oh, your life must be changing," and I'm like, "Uh, I guess?" For me, it's such a gradual change, and I don't see it from the outside like everybody else does. It's weird, I see my face on a bus or online or somebody has my picture as their picture on Twitter and it's all a bit weird and I feel very disconnected from it and very much, "I guess that's me." It's very surreal.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.