Tamora Pierce Quotes

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.