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.
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.
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Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
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You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.
If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.
It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.
Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.
I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and renew yourself.
Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!
Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.
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When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?
