I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar. – Joan Jett
You can’t be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people. – Jim Wallis
It doesn’t matter if you’re small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, ‘Oh my God, I look amazing,’ and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect. – Irina Shayk
Something like ‘Much Ado’ happens, and even ‘Avengers’ happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself. – Joss Whedon
Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself. – Itzhak Perlman
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you. – Jeanette Winterson
The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they’re especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don’t prove yourself and you don’t skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place. – Johnny Weir
Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn’t know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one. – Jason Statham
I think it’s nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. – Jami Attenberg
I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it’s the only career in the world that you can’t choose for yourself – you have to be chosen. – Ines de La Fressange
At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
It’s O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence. – Jason Day
As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you’re always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you’re a fraud. – James Marsden
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. – Henry Rollins
Because, you know, it’s never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I’ve been here since 57 years, and I don’t have to explain why I’ve stayed so long. I always enjoyed it. – John Hench
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. – Jimmy Wales
Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don’t even realize that they’ve kind of drifted off somewhere. – Jamie Foxx
On the stage you develop a character that’s different from yourself. In a film they’re always saying, ‘Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.’ – Jon Cryer
Acting is just common sense. It isn’t hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. – James Garner
I couldn’t run a tight schedule, and if you’re any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you’re trying to help them, but you don’t have any time left to write yourself. – Jim Harrison
During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life. – Greg Rutherford
My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. – Jonathan Ive
There’s something really magical about having a child – it’s like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. – Jill Scott
