- 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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
- For The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I decided to retire I thought I should align myself with a charity that can use my high profile.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't call myself any kind of singer. I leave that to other people because there are plenty out there who're quick to do that.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020