Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

A lot of people know who I am now. They want a little bit of me, a little bit of my time. But at the end of the day, I still have to remember who I am.

I wouldn't say I'm a commodity. I try not to think about it too much.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

There is more to me than my boobs and my boyfriends.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.