William Boyd Quotes

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I change every day. I'm still changing.

I'm constantly reinventing myself. It's a constant thing that I do.

I'm a different girl almost every time I look in the mirror.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

I have to reinvent myself.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.