William Boyd Quotes

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

I am always writing to myself.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

I'm just a weird mix of immature and intelligent and I like to share my point of view and who I am.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.