Eric Butterworth Quotes

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.