Celeste Ng Quotes

I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

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.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

The dignity and importance of the individual. I try to hang on to that in all my films.

For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.

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!

No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.

If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.