Philip Kitcher Quotes

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent, new developments are superficial and evanescent. For the adolescent, they are thrilling and profound.

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.

The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

I will write my way into another life.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.