#yours

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#cultivate #public #whatever #you #yourself

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#difficulties #isolate #keep #life #men

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.' ↗

— Hilary Duff

#believe #completely #lose #mom #says

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#becoming #caricature #connecting #continuing #creatively

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself. ↗

— Obie Trice

#goals #got #i #i love #just

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. ↗

— Dave Holland

#along #carried #content #emotional #fact

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#aspirations #expectation #fears #finding-yourself #hopes

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me. ↗

— Marie Trintignant

#characters #deep #dig #elsewhere #i

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#delegation #everything #first #management #rule

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. ↗

— John Mortimer

#bore #found #i #only #rule