Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

I want people to think about what I have achieved and not what I look like.

The world is not outside you.

Your world will follow your idea about yourself.