#ourself

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#define #tell #try #who #you

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#artwork #beauty #doing #doing good #either

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer. ↗

— David Guterson

#answer #bury #evade #gives #how

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#encourage #except #going #keep #keep going

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. ↗

— Robert Half

#convincing #win #yourself

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#any #convince #interesting #need #play

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#clues #find #how #life #little

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#because #dry #get #good #help

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#actually #because #closet #end #exposing

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination. ↗

— Corey Hart

#being #belief #every #fear #free