Alice Cooper Quotes

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

I can only do what I can do.

I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.

I'm grateful that the public think of me as a sweet guy, but there are times when I get worried that my behavior would disappoint the public. I'd like to show them that there are different sides of me.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

I've never been motivated by the award thing. There's a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I'm still working with that. I don't think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it.

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.