- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love people. I hate to be by myself.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself - it was an easy two-hour train ride - to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought the manuscript was in great shape; I was pretty proud of myself. Then I sent it to some publishing friends, and they tore it apart.
- Nov 07, 2020
After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'The Road To Hell' happened, I didn't know what I was doing. Your diary fills up, and you have no objectivity. At home, you're trying your best to fit in. Sometimes I'd race from Heathrow to find myself sitting in a village hall watching my kids. It felt really weird. I didn't enjoy it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.
- Pizza
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020