Kendrick Lamar Quotes

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

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.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

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.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

What I enjoy the most about 'Insecure' is it holds up a mirror to real life. If you're paying attention and you're watching consciously, you are able to make better decisions about who you are, the people that are around you.

I just try to be the player I am.

I don't find it distracting to be me.

Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.