#yourself

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone. ↗

— Kate Bush

#alone #awful #because #deal #friends

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#fit #happy #hardest #i #i think

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#act #aloud #courageous #most #still

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself. ↗

— James Cameron

#cause #doubt #listen #many #more

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#erratic #forward #gentle #growth #movement

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#before #clear #glorious #lies #life

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule. ↗

— Robert Caro

#early #easy #everything #excuse #fool

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. ↗

— Robert Caro

#books #bug #easy #fool #go

You always have to challenge yourself or else you get soft. Right? ↗

— Diane Kruger

#challenge #else #get #right #soft

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#artist #entertained #hope #i #i do