Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. B. King

I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

Bethenny Frankel

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

Ashley Tisdale

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Charles R. Swindoll

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

Bill Hicks

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

Chris Cornell

Be yourself is all that you can do.

Ayrton Senna

The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.

Ayrton Senna

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

Bryant H. McGill

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

Bela Bartok

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

Bede Griffiths

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

B. R. Ambedkar

Learn to live in this world with self-respect

B. H. Liddell Hart

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

B. F. Skinner

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Billy Corgan

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Bill Crawford

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.

Maya Angelou

kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect

Chuck Amato

I tell it like it is. Nobody can make that decision except the man himself. He's the one that's got to make it, and don't look back. Don't you dare look back.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Ellison Chu

I don't dare say that I favor gold in the long run. After gold's rise to these levels, I think there will be a correction.

Tom McMillan

I dare say, he did more (publicity) in the preseason than any hockey player ever has,

Robert Wallace

I dared to lose and I won, ... It was a lot of hard work, and physical training and studying.

Logan P. Smith

There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them

Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.