Walter Isaacson Quotes

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

You can accept that perception of yourself that you're getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

I never doubted my place in the world.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.