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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it's like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.
- Forbearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using!
- Resistance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
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- Nov 07, 2020