Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Viggo Mortensen

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

Victoria Moran

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

Victoria Moran

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Victor Cruz

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

Victor Hugo

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

Victor Hugo

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Vernon Howard

There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.

Vernon Howard

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Debby Ryan

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Jose Bergamin

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Julian Casablancas

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

Ellen Page

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Holly Black

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

Gore Verbinski

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.