- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yourself Quotes
The hardest audience is yourself.
These quotes turn inward — an actor describing the fear that comes before any audience does, and thoughts on the quiet value of lowering the noise and simply listening more closely. For more on inner confidence, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
- Dedicate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When expressions of emotion are dangerous, and when you are constantly told that this terrible thing is being done for your own good, you quickly learn to hide your true feelings, even from yourself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
- Silent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
- Nov 07, 2020