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We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams. -- Jewel
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down. -- J. C. Ryle
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do. -- Simon Van Booy
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. -- Alan Alda
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. -- Truman Capote
I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did. -- Rutina Wesley
Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it. -- Charlie Day
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. -- Kevyn Aucoin
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present. -- Naomi Judd
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. -- Gary Oldman
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. -- Brendon Burchard
I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good. -- Erik Hassle
The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' -- Matthew Macfadyen
I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore. -- Lisa Edelstein
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books. -- James Frey
Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself. -- Jenny Valentine
You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself. -- Wayne Dyer
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises. -- Jaggi Vasudev
You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better. -- Leon Brown
for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put. -- Louise Bernikow
The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. -- Leon Uris
Many people know themselves but hardly believe what they know. To be a leader, knowing yourself is not enough; you must believe what you know about yourself! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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