Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Zinn

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

Horace

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Horace

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Guy Gavriel Kay

A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.

Guy Finley

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

Guy Finley

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Gore Vidal

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those liberals who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

Gore Vidal

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

Gina Carano

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Gerhard Richter

Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

Harold Prince

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

James Bovard

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

James Bovard

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

Jakob Nielsen

To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

Jacques Derrida

An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

Jacques Barzun

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

Jacques Barzun

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

Jack White

All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.

Jennifer Aniston

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

Jeanne Moreau

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Jean-Paul Marat

Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.

Graham Norton

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

Gloria Gaynor

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Gloria Gaynor

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

Gerald R. Ford

Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

Jim Jarmusch

I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's -consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.