Simon Travaglia Quotes

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.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

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

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

You can’t have people make you what you are not. You can have advisers and political consultants, but at the end of the day, you are who you are.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.

I think I see myself differently than most people see me.

Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.

When it comes to a specific sound, I don't feel like there's something I need to worry about. I'd much rather do something creative and credible. Like, 'Who am I? What am I trying to say? What do I stand for?' I stand for all of it, because I feel all of it, like everybody.

I don't look at anything for who I should be.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

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