- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'
- Nov 07, 2020
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
- Nov 07, 2020
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you model, you don't really have control over your image. It can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. It can be a good thing in the sense that, actually, you have to get reintroduced to yourself. You don't always get that opportunity in your normal life. You can kind of hide from yourself.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in finding somewhere you can express yourself, play without fear, play with everything you have. When you find that place, stay.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
- Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to give yourself a chance to get in the postseason.
- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020