Leon Uris Quotes

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

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.

I don't set goals. Competing with a number in your head can be limiting, and I don't know what my capabilities are yet.

The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.

I love talking about anything, except for myself.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from?

Self improvement is masturbation.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.