#ourself

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#air #different #every #every time #find

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#balance #between #find #need #people

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out. ↗

— Alva Noto

#choose #go #inevitably #limit #off

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#crowd #even #isolate #want #you

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist. ↗

— Laura Nyro

#categorize #i #should #think #you

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#express #express yourself #how #just #know

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#chest #cut #down #else #get

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#before #cause #child #offense #sure

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#always #am #any #attacks #because

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ↗

— George Orwell

#any #appears #cannot #creed #draw