Cindy Gallop Quotes

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

I am definitely the same person I was when I finished 'The Impossible.' That's one of the things I really strive to keep.

Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.

The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.