Antonio Damasio Quotes

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

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

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

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

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

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

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

I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.