Cheri Huber Quotes

I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.

The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.