Beatrice Wood Quotes

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.

The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

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.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.