It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Interpretation
Self-acceptance comes from within and shouldn't rely on external perceptions.
This quote by Sally Field highlights the importance of self-acceptance and the struggle many people face when they allow others' opinions to shape their self-image. It suggests that true personal growth requires a shift away from seeking validation externally and emphasizes the need for inner confidence and self-worth.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-esteem.
I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.
I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.
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