David Miliband Quotes

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

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.

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'

I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.

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

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 I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

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