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Quotes tagged “Self-Expression”

“I like it when you express yourself.”
— Zuko, Avatar, Book Three: The Beach
Tagged: Express, Self-Expression, Feelings
“I should be allowed to express my individuality.”
— Erin Quinn, Derry Girls, Series 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Express, Individuality, Allowed, Self-Expression
“I believe that cooking your own meals, the way you want to, is the truest path to self-actualization ever devised by man or god or machine.”
— John Gorman, The Life-Changing Magic of Making Pasta Sauce
Tagged: Pasta Sauce, food, Self-Expression, Cooking, gender roles
“I used to run around my house in a Scream mask with a hockey stick—it's how I expressed myself.”
— Ariana Grande, I Spent Three Hours With Ariana Grande and Here's What Happened
Tagged: Scream, Hockey, Self-Expression
“I'm a huge advocate of self-expression, being yourself, and encouraging people to embrace who they are and the things that make them beautiful. I love people's uniqueness—the quirky, weird, interesting, and different things about everybody.”
— Ariana Grande, I Spent Three Hours With Ariana Grande and Here's What Happened
Tagged: Self-Expression, Being Yourself, Beautiful, unique, Quirky
“There is a great misconception in this era of graphic design that it is a medium of self-expression”
— Peter Saville, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Tagged: Design Quotes, Graphic Design, Self-Expression
“Our self expression is the reflection of our society. We mirror our world.”
— Yoko Ono
Tagged: self expression, self reflection, Reflection, product of society
“I quote others only to better express myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Tagged: Self-Expression, Perspectives
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
— Harvey Fierstein
Tagged: idenitity, Individuality, Silence, self expression, define yourself, Life, Determination
“These days I just can’t seem to say what I mean. I just can’t. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can’t even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It’s like my body’s split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We’re running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.”
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Tagged: expression, self expression, Words
“You are literally saying that if we look a certain way, we are yours to take. But we are not! It's our right to express ourselves.”
— Ariana Grande
Tagged: feminism, Appearance, Self-Expression
“I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Media, Self-Expression, Creativity, Writing
“This rocking chair is so pointy, it's not giving me any room to express myself.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Self-Expression, Creativity, Girls, Individuality
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Fear, vulnerability, expression, Self-Expression, Honesty, Opening Up
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Tagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty, expression, Self-Expression, vulnerability
“Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could...”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Tagged: Creativity, Art, Artistic Growth, Self-Expression, Self-Confidence
“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
— Arnold Glasgow, No Title
Tagged: Success, Work, Self-Expression, Creativity, perseverance
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
— Ernest Hemingway, No Title
Tagged: Writing, Creativity, Pain, Self-Expression, Poetry
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
— Annette Messager, No Title
Tagged: Artist, Self-Expression, Writing, Poetry
“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Stories, Writing, Creativity, Self-Expression

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