Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

Born ham, that's basically me.

You know, most people really don't know me.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.