We all become what we pretend to be.
You can't be what you can't see.
The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.
You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.
Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.
We grow into that which we admire.
The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.
Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.
Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.
I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.
I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.
I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'
I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'
