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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
Sep 14, 2025
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.
When you're timid, you're just thinking of yourself! Think of the other person - put him at ease, get him a drink.
Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole.
Biggest lesson? Discovering that the less I think about myself and the more I think about what I can do for others, the more I get out of life. Ultimately, it makes me a happier person. You have to give it away if you want to get it back. After all, humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.
...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.
I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
If you think you can't, you're right.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Just be yourself, there is no one better.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.