Personal Core Quotes

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.

What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.

I feel like I'm always going to be me. It always goes back to being the person that I am. And I hope that will never change.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

My faith is everything. It's the bedrock, the foundation and the core of who I am.

When I get the possibility of using a character like Bruce Wayne or Dick Grayson, I try and think about what's most exciting or interesting about them as a person, so I try and think what they are at their core, or what piece of their psychology do I gravitate toward that I respect, and I'm excited by it when I read books about them.

"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the way. I feel like most people can learn it because production and the administration part is all about logic, and it's all about learning rules and budgets.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life.