Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.

If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Does what you think of you determine your worth?

Often, others see you, as you see yourself

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

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.

I don't think of myself as an evil monster and I hope I'm not.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.

I often think about the idea that augmentation has become the new normal. When you start to augment and filter yourself because you think you should, you're kind of putting your worth in other people's hands, rather than having that worth come from within.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.