#myself

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#critical #difficult #i #me #my own

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#away #carried #day #every #every day

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#being #child #could #had #however

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#another #anyway #been #certainly #complicated

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#control #different #edges #i #i have learned

I hate everything which is not in myself. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#hate #i #myself #which

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#channels #cherished #confidence #did #difficult

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world. ↗

— Ang Lee

#movies #myself #understanding #way #world

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore. ↗

— Ang Lee

#couple #doing #full #going #i