Misty Copeland Quotes

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

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

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

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.

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.

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

Every once in a while, you need a reminder of how people see you, view you.

You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

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 no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

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

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

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

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