I have always been interested in the idea of…

Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in…

— Luc Sante

I'd always been interested in the idea of the outsider.

— Jim Kerr

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

— Alissa Quart

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

— Matt Bomer

“Advice from a Caterpillar Chew your way into a new world. Munch leaves. Molt. Rest. Molt again. Self-reinvention is everything . Spin many nests.…

— Amy Gerstler

I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of your arms,…

— Mike Cahill

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist…

— Frederick Lenz

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves…

— Michel Foucault

“He liked it, the idea of self-duplication. It was almost acquisitive, this thought.”

— Theodore Dreiser

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness…

— Russell Brand

“I saw clearly that the idea of the self—of distinction, of me, of an inner and outer—is just an illusion,” he said, “something created…

— Emily Esfahani Smith

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;'…

— Buddha

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that…

— Frederick Lenz

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship…

— James Hillman