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self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner
creative fact inviting name people pick short soon stature wrestle
Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation. Gary Arnold
creative difficult greatest impulse love song suffering work
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work. Patti Smith
creative prolific students ways
We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.
creative trying demand
Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed. Tyler Cowen
creative territory fiction
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative Tracy Kidder
creative together faith-and-love
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. Twyla Tharp
creative productive
I wanna keep being productive and creative. Vince Gilligan
creative be-creative
I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you. Vince Gill
creative get-better done
We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.
persons hard
I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard. Tupac Shakur
persons
I am a person who is not mated. Sarah Paulson
persons
I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that. Kirsten Dunst
persons
I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life. Marc Almond
persons
Through the Thou a person becomes I. Martin Buber
persons ifs generous
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person Quintilian
persons
I'm not such a public person. Phillip Lim
persons speeding knows
I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding. Paula Poundstone
persons
I was never interested in being an overly public person. John Cusack