Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.
Don't matter what I do, what I say, how much I try to change. You don't change perception.
People saw more magic in me than I saw.
To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
I have a positive outlook, but when you're out in the public eye, you wonder how people see you.
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.
I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.
We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The way people see you is the way you really are.
