Kurt Braunohler Quotes

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

I don't know if I'm 'normal.'

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I have no issues with my identity.

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.