Idealized Self Quotes

Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted.

My image was that of a romantic, soft hero.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

From a young age, I've had a desire to put forward this perfect image, whatever perfect was.

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

Her sister [June Havoc] said the musical portrayed who Gypsy [Rose Lee] wanted to be before the burlesque thing happened she wanted to be this beautiful, romantic person with dreams. So Gypsy told the story of her life as she wished she'd lived it: embellishing, softening the edges, eliminating certain things altogether.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

I wanted to be a guard. I wanted to be 6'8' and stay there.

I live a much more interesting life in other people's minds.

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.

Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.