Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. — Kurt Cobain
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. — Michel Foucault
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before. — Robert James Waller
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. — Bette Davis
I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up. — Vincent Cassel
You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be — Orrin Woodward
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on. — Cindy Sherman
We wear different masks and hide our reality from everyone, including ourselves. Our assumed identities become our whole lives, and we start to believe them — even more than others do. — Mo Gawdat
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. — David Viscott
The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody. — Ram Dass
Fundamentally, habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone. — James Clear
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there. — Emma Watson
Short Becoming Someone Else Quotes
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. — Coco Chanel
dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. — Kurt Cobain
You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character. — Lucille Bliss
Decide who you want to be, then become it. — Tom Bilyeu
Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become. — Hal Elrod
In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself. — James Clear
You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were. — Sidney Poitier
I didn't become successful until I became myself — Sam Smith
Becoming Someone Else Image Quotes
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Becoming Someone Else Quotes
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself. — Myles Munroe
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind. — Noam Chomsky
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. — Whoopi Goldberg
It has taken all your life to become this version of YOU. Now, just to impress someone, don't try to become someone else. Live to EXPRESS; not to IMPRESS. Projecting what you are not is not a peaceful arrangement either for you or for others. Preserve the you in you. — Mahatria Ra
If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see. — Deepak Chopra
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. — John Taylor Gatto
Focus on your own strengths and what you have to offer. Don’t get lost in trying to become like someone else or pretending to be someone else. — Jay Shetty
I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else. — Rowan Atkinson
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. — Harry Mathews
Is There Someone Else Quotes
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation. — Walter E. Williams
You can’t make yourself closer to God by hating someone else, whether you believe it’s righteous anger or not. The relationship between Soul—which is you—and God is one of love. And where there’s pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind. — Harold Klemp
As you sit back doing nothing because you are afraid to make a mistake, someone else is out there making all kinds of mistakes, learning from them, and getting to where you wanted to be. And probably laughing at your weakness. — Tim Grover
Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. — Len Wein
What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world. — Zach Sobiech
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else. — Peyton C. March
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is. — Lynn Jennings
There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? — Peter Andrews
If there is one thing my Soviet childhood taught me, it's that subscribing to someone else's ideology will always inevitably mean having to suspend your own judgment about right and wrong to appease your tribe. I refuse to do so. — Konstantin Kisin
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others. — Lao Tzu
Someone Else Will Quotes
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. — Dalai Lama
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will. — Henry Cloud
Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
Every minute that you sit around trying to figure out what to do, someone else is already doing it. Make a choice or a choice will be made for you. — Tim Grover
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. — Fred Allen
Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you. — Jeremy Hammond
The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it. — Gad Saad
Do Something For Someone Else Quotes
Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. — Gary Chapman
To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better. — Richard Kiel
By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred. — Wendy Shalit
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. — Simon Sinek
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you. — Edward De Bono
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. — Jodi Picoult
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good. — Evelyn Lauder
Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury. — Jim Beaver
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. — Theodor Haecker
Believe in your dreams and ideals and pursue them with determination and motivation. Always find the time to do something for other people. Indeed, there is nothing more rewarding than making someone else happy. — Fabiola Gianotti
Pretending To Be Someone Else Quotes
Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else. — Alex Gaskarth
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else. — Sayings
I spend my working life pretending to be someone else. — Andrew Lincoln
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else. — Sayings
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself. — Drew Barrymore
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. — Paulo Coelho
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. — Sayings
I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. — Lusia Strus
Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else? — Mike Medavoy
The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much. — Brent Weeks
Becoming Someone Quotes
Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching. — Marva Collins
Never become so involved with something that it blinds you.
Never forget where you from; someone will remind you. — DMX
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. — Leo Buscaglia
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. — Alfred Hitchcock
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate. — Adam Rickitt
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have no interest in bantering back and forth with someone who is the exact person that I am trying not to become, and stay away from, by degrading women, by going after my family, in a manner that is intended to harm. — Logan Paul
One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then. — Enrique Iglesias
The moment you've convinced someone that you truly understand her dreams and feelings, mental and behavioral change becomes possible, and the foundation for a breakthrough has been laid. — Chris Voss
Not Being Yourself Quotes
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones — John Lennon
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize. — George Bernard Shaw
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations. — T. D. Jakes
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy. — Fulton J. Sheen
But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite — Rick Riordan
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim. — Byron Katie
Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out. — Les Brown
My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?' — Ryan Lochte
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance. — Elliot Perlman
My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' — Tom Hiddleston
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. — Kurt Cobain
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend? — Trent Reznor
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. — Russell Simmons
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again. — Paulo Coelho
Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away. — Beverly Engel
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. — Kurt Cobain
"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others. — George Ohsawa
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. — Charles Stanley
As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that. — Angela Bassett
Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you. — Hal Elrod
The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success is not being better than someone else, success is the peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfacti on in knowing that you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable. — John Wooden
I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law. — Lenny Bruce
Don’t just look for your miracle. Become someone else's miracle. — Joel Osteen
People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one. — Michael Dell
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people. — Chris Kraus
I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that? — Orlando Bloom
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time.
Your life will become better by making other lives better. — Will Smith
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. — Terry Pratchett
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan
Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got. — Kurt Cobain
Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom. — Daisaku Ikeda
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. — John Irving
I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs. — Nas
we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem. — Darren Main
In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else
will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged. — Dalai Lama
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. — Robert Smith
When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you aren't willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is. — T. Harv Eker
Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible. — Wayne Dyer
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