Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Korzybski

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Alfred Korzybski

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

Alfred Korzybski

These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.

Alfred Korzybski

Identity is invariably false to facts.

Albert Einstein

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

Albert Einstein

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Adele

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Adele

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Adele

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

Adele

I've never been more normal than I am now.

Adele

I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

Adele

I love hearing my audience breathe.

Adele

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like

Adele

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

Adele

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Samuel Johnson

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Aberjhani

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Aberjhani

Dare to love yourself

Aberjhani

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Alison Lurie

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

Ann Coulter

Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.

Aesop

The gods help them who help themselves.

Agatha Christie

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

Abraham Maslow

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

Abraham Maslow

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

Abraham Maslow

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

Abraham Lincoln

Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.

Harvey Mackay

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

Alice S. Rossi

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Alice Walker

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Alice Miller

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.