I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that freedom. One day, I’ll wear a dress I got in India; the next, Converse sneakers and jeans. – Hannah Simone
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own. – Howard Schultz
You have to be concerned with yourself because if you’re not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be. – Herbie Mann
You write five different things, and none of them work, and then suddenly something does, and you ask yourself, ‘Why did that last one work?’ I think that’s the way the artistic mind works. All writers and artists of all kinds often don’t know why things work. – Gilbert Morris
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. – Honore de Balzac
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description… You have to create it for yourself. – Hillary Clinton
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice. – Herbie Mann
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting. – Harry Stack Sullivan
In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to ‘Space Invaders,’ they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You’re going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame. – Hideo Kojima
With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there’s nothing there. You get to color things in more and you’re allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it’s great fun. – Hans Zimmer
I haven’t written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you’re likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do. – George Shearing
When you’re down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you’re not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward. – Hillary Clinton
When you’re young you don’t know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within. – Gilbert Hernandez
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. – Henry Rollins
Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. – Guy Finley
Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens. – Henepola Gunaratana
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not. – Howard Staunton
Even when you’re out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own. – Hill Harper
I’m satisfied and proud of the things I did – even the bumps and the bruises that I’ve had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that’s what we’re doing. – Gucci Mane
Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves. – Halle Berry
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. – Howard Shore
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality… That’s a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. – George Stevens
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. – Henry Rollins
The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do – by yourself, upon your own initiative. – Harry Browne
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. – Howard Hodgkin
If some band sucks, you’re going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don’t have the interest in issuing warnings. – Henry Rollins
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you’re gonna come up with something different, or you’ll find songs that are different. – Hillary Scott
Many men think they’re playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word ‘loser.’ – Graydon Carter