- Gazed
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a freshman at Yale, one teacher brought me up after class and said, 'You're trying to undermine my class.' And I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be kicked out of school on the first week.' Not only do I not have a sense of self, I don't even know what she's talking about. I don't even know how to undermine anything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the Philippines to follow my father who came here earlier, looking for a better life. I helped my father in our sari-sari store. I also asked him if I could go back to school so I could learn English and improve myself.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020