Paul Butterfield Quotes

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

People should just get over themselves.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

Ego is good.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

It's about sticking to your strengths - I'm not trying to run away from nobody or do any double stopovers or anything like that, have you seen how big these legs are? Though i'm sure people would love to see it.

I'd say I'm the best 19-year-old ever, and I still feel that way at 21.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

A man is always better than he thinks.

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.