- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having realised that in cooking there was a vast field of study and development, I said to myself, 'Although I had not originally intended to enter this profession, since I am in it, I will work in such a fashion that I will rise above the ordinary, and I will do my best to raise again the prestige of the chef de cuisine.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to keep certain stuff to myself just because I feel like technology is taking over people's lives.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin' is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020