- Education
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- 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.
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- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely pride myself on suffering through a real high school. A lot of my friends are homeschooled, and I love them for it, but I really wanted that high school experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.
- Material Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to attach myself to material things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, as an actor, it's always about getting out of my own way. I can put so much pressure on myself to keep up and make my director happy instead of being in the moment.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020