Self Perception Quotes

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today.

I don't particularly like photos of myself, though.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.

You don't see your own face, your own beautyYet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here.

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

I don't develop; I am.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

I think that I'm perfect.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.