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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
taught
I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever. Leonard Cohen
taught crafts talent
Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened. Wallace Stegner
taught language english-language
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. Zoe Wanamaker
taught students best-students
When I taught, all my best students were women. Zaha Hadid
taught-us opinion remember
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either. Jonathan Swift
taught-us evil religion
Religion taught us to return good for evil. Mahatma Gandhi
taught looks librarian
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see. Jodi Picoult
taught students professors
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology. Jurgen Moltmann
taught being-the-best i-can
Life has taught me to just be the best I can be. Oprah Winfrey
ifs
You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Roald Dahl
ifs
I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will. Venus Williams
ifs
If you build it, they will come. W. P. Kinsella
ifs sells
Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it. Yogi Berra
ifs
If I do not go within, I go without. Neale Donald Walsch
ifs
It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it. Joe Mauer
ifs
if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
ifs
There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
ifs
If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?