#myself

...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. ↗

— Philip Roth

#professional-life #to-fortify-and-defend-myself #life

Wherever I go, I run into myself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #myself #myself-quatation #poems

I recreate myself; that is my only power. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #myself #poems #poetry

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#emphasized #game #how #jordan #learned

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me. ↗

— Alan Alda

#business #extensive #field #find #going

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#available #choice #decision #doing #had

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#dark #i #i came #journey #life

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#been #doing #enjoy #i #i can

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#album #because #car #certain #certain way

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#every #few #i #i am #idiot