William Feather Quotes

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

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

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

I always told myself I will never let football define who I am; I would only let in enhance who I am.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.