Plotinus Quotes

People see us as no better than we are.

I define myself.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

What is the image you have of yourself?

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

I don't think I'm boring.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.