Michael Pollan Quotes

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

I have no issues with my identity.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

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

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

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.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.