Mj Rodriguez Quotes

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

It was a combination of typecasting and my own demons. There are roles I could have gotten, but there were just lots of opportunities that I just blew on my own.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

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

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.