Lauren Graham Quotes

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.