Michael Tippett Quotes

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

I like to live life in a way that I understand, it's satisfying. I understand you have to reach a mark where everyone likes you but in reality they don't like you, they like your work.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I don't want to acquire whatever 'fame' is.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

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

Just to talk a moment about transparency, of course CIA does have a Twitter account.

Looking back, I can't say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like.

When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.

If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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.