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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
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in myself.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like pressure. I put in on myself, and I think I get the best out of myself by doing that.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never praise myself, because I think there's always improvement to be made.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to Hull and I was playing against players in the Premier League, maybe I pinched myself then.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who sadly stay in on a Saturday - and I include myself in there - look forward to 'Match of the Day.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up at 10. I have coffee, and then I spend a half an hour on the computer, where I read newspapers and progressive blogs. I have to tear myself away, or I'll spend all day reading.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020