Who Quotations | Page 11

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.

A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.

I have no doubt who I am.

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it

Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.

I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back

I think you have to take me for me. I am who I am.

Remember like where you’ve come from. Know who you are.

im am who i am i can't change

One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I am I who know others

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

I am who I am and I am what I am. And it's beautiful. And it's okay even if it doesn't look like the sexiest Victoria Secret model. It also boils down to my interactions with people.

I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.

I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be.

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

I think my greatest insecurity would just be standing in the middle of the room and having everyone watching me thinking that's what I want. If I am interesting to you because of who I am, then that's incredible. But if I'm interesting to you only because of what I am, then let's not bother, you know?

Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

Some fans understand who I am and why I do things, and then there are some fans that have formed an opinion that I don't feel is who I am.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

When we have laws that compartmentalize medical information, and when we have paper systems that compartmentalize medical information, you sometimes have a doctor who understands his specialty and is terrific on your kidneys, but he doesn't understand the totality of who you are.

I don't have a problem with recognition ... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.' ... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality,'

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

I'm more comfortable with my beliefs and with who I am. I honestly don't think about it that much. I just try to live my life and I try to love people. I try to love God well and I try to love people well. Those are my main objectives.

There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.

I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.

I don't love who I am so I'm working on a fix

Don't be afraid to show who you are.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.

Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play — characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am...

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.

Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

We don't get to decide who God is.

Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS If we are to be who we are; if we are to accomplish great things; then we must learn the heart's most essential rule: NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!

But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.

New York is who I am.

I know myself, and when you start to really know who you are, you don't question it when you read what someone says about you.

And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?