Chip Conley Quotes

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

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

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I define myself.

I know what my identity is.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

Every act is an act of self definition.