- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have to go to the board and hit three 180s before I'd allow myself to go to bed. Sometimes, I'd do it in five minutes but, on a bad night, it could take an hour.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes getting beaten isn't such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked as an engineer before going into ceramics, making insulators. It was my job, so I got it done. But I also had a lot of pride in myself.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came out with a few plaudits, and I don't really enjoy that because I am a team player. I don't shout about myself, and I've always been team-orientated, so maybe that is why I have always slipped under the radar throughout my career.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
From facing a manager for the past 16 years to suddenly being the one person everyone is looking at is a daunting prospect. It's something I want to be prepared for. If I get the opportunity, I don't want to let myself down.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020