If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.
Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.
If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.
There's nothing wrong with being yourself.
Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.
People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.
Stay small and control it yourself.
I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.
You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
It's really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that's sexy.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
