Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

You can't base your life off waking up every morning, like, 'What are people saying about me now?' Then I'd never stay in my creative headspace.

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. What other people think of me is not my business.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

I see women who have this struggle between what they know is right, what they know is necessary, what they know is healthy, what they know is good for them, what they know is good for the work that they need to do, what they know is good for their bodies, what they know is good for their families - all too often ending that statement with the upturned question mark: "If it's okay with everyone?" Still asking, still requesting, still filing petitions for somebody to say that it's all right.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.