“I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.” SelfSchoolTaughtCollegeBandHigh SchoolSelf TaughtConservatory Author:Tim Heidecker
“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.” IfsYearsWellsKindSelfEnoughSchoolPastLinesRiskTaughtEgoClothesHigh SchoolTwentiesPreparedLifetimeTortureBe KindBiographiesPreservationFlatteringSelf PreservationEdited Author:Sharyn McCrumb
“High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.” PeopleKnowsSaidSelfHardWantedSchoolFitConsciousHigh SchoolSelf ConsciousUnsure Author:Meaghan Rath
“I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.” PeopleSelfSchoolGuyTeacherGroupsTaughtBandHigh SchoolProducersJailGraduatesSelf Taught Author:Billy Joel
“After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.” IfsWaySelfWould BeSchoolParentMy OwnPerfectCollegeWillingSummerHigh SchoolWorkersSelf ConfidenceSellingFormerFarmsBrushes Author:Billy Graham
“There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.” IfsSelfHomeAgeSchoolValuesCoursesSelf EsteemCollegeHigh SchoolEsteemElementary SchoolCollege Courses Author:T. D. Jakes
“I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsLittlesSelfSchoolEasyBitsPathDisciplineLittle BitHigh SchoolAdultsDeterminationDefinedSelf RelianceLooking GoodReliance Author:Neil Peart
“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.” WritingTryingSelfWantedSchoolSongVoicePerspectiveSingingHigh SchoolIntentionPopsTonePunkEmulateDichotomy Author:Laura Benanti
“High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.” IfsMeanSelfKidsSchoolDecisionSupportStrangeHigh SchoolAdultsSelf ConfidenceIntenseSupport YouPivotalOne FriendStrange Times Author:Tyler Blackburn
“My mother didn't feel sorry for herself, she was left with no child support, no alimony at a very young age, with a child to raise, a high school education and she just figured it out. She didn't complain, she didn't rely upon government, she relied upon her own skill set, her own self confidence, her own drive in moxie and her own duty to me and her and she relied upon her family and her faith.” FeelsChildrenSelfGovernmentAgeSchoolYoungMotherLeftSupportDutySkillsHigh SchoolRaisesSorrySelf ConfidenceComplainingRelyYoung AgeSchool EducationRely UponAlimonyMoxie Author:Kellyanne Conway
“For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.” ThinkingWayWritingBelieveSaidSelfSchoolLyingEasyCareersTeacherCollegeQuietHigh SchoolProfessionRidiculousIdiotAmerican HistoryBeneficialExamHistory TeacherGood CollegeSchool History Author:Noam Chomsky
“In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.” PeopleKindDifferentSelfSchoolHairHigh SchoolAwkwardHallwaysDorky Author:Amy Adams
“Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.” SelfSchoolCoursesLiteratureHabitHigh SchoolStuckClothingsBootsSchool Life Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” PeopleLifePersonsSelfWisdomFoundPsychologyWise WordsWords Of WisdomFindingsCreatingHigh SchoolDiscoveryExcellenceSelf DiscoveryFinding YourselfDiscoveringTrue SelfKnow YourselfThyselfBe True To YourselfTrue To YourselfKnow ThyselfLosing YourselfSelf KnowingDiscovering YourselfStay True To YourselfFinding The OneDiscovering SelfDiscovery In LifeDiscovering Your True SelfFinding Your PathBeing Your True SelfLost YourselfCreating YourselfDiscovering ThingsDiscovering Something Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
“Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.” GivingWritingSelfCharacterStoriesSchoolFormNamesClassWatchesCreativeJokesHigh SchoolDatingComicGirlfriendSense Of HumorContemptReally GreatCreative WritingHandicappedDating SomeoneAnagramsOld Girlfriend Author:Lorrie Moore
“Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.” SelfKidsSchoolFocusDisciplineEasierHigh SchoolSelf DisciplineSense Of Self Author:Amy Chua
“My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.” ThinkingLongRealSelfMatterWholeCareSchoolPowerfulHairConsciousHigh SchoolGratefulDon't CareLegsWhole LifeI Don't CareInsecurityThickSkinnySelf ConsciousLong LegsDon't Care AnymoreI Don't Care AnymoreThick Hair Author:Shailene Woodley
“I hate mirrors; every time I look in one I see things that could be improved. If I could give my younger self any advice it would be: ‘Take a deep breath, the world is not ending – and do something with your hair.’ I had the same haircut from when I was a toddler all the way through high school, it was this weird side-parting. I didn’t like change.” IfsWorldWayGivingLooksSelfWould BeSchoolHateSidesAdviceHairHigh SchoolI HateBreathsMirrorsIf I CouldPartingDeep BreathHaircutsToddlerTake A Deep BreathYounger Self Author:Chris Colfer