#yours

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. ↗

— William Collins

#dentistry #do-it-yourself #go #her #his

There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destiny #dreams #faith #faith-in-yourself #finding-yourself

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known. ↗

— Confucius

#concerned #fit #how #instead #known

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ↗

— Confucius

#others #same #were #you #yourself

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#ever #find #i #know #like

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#friends #really #see #spending #spending time

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#else #everything #find #happen #place

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#death #dies #feel #feeling #genuine

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#anyway #budget #create #divest #enforced

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#courage #cowardly #desperation #dull #half