Katie Kitamura Quotes

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Men must know their limitations.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.

We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.