Agnes de Mille Quotes

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

I don't read articles about myself. I try to distance myself from it. Reading about yourself is nice, but in the long run, it doesn't help. Concentration has to be in the right place.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.