Quotes about self
selfish society truth
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Phil McGraw
self psychics awareness
Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self. Aberjhani
self-worth ivy people
People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton A.J. Burnett
self improvement obsession
I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve. A. J. Jacobs
self upper-class towns
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it. A. N. Wilson
self return plenitude
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. A. R. Ammons
self moral-beliefs looks
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred. A. S. Byatt
self trying revealing
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
selfish mean marketing
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work! Abbas Kiarostami
self stories awareness
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. A. E. van Vogt
self numbness despair
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair. Adrienne Rich
selfish people done
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love. Agatha Christie
self accompany-us world
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
selfish thinking
I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. Adrian Grenier
selfish indulge-in giving
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
self humanity liberty
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. Adam Smith
self needs opinion
I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. Adam Levine
self-confidence may acne
Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.
self taught classical-music
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. Adam Jones
self roots discipline
Self-respect is the root of discipline Abraham Joshua Heschel
self independence being-human
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
self light darkness
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
self people
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be. Abraham Maslow
self healthy feelings
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing
self height certain
Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates. Ludwig von Mises
self-confidence winning simplicity
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence. Jack Welch
self best-effort knowing
The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success is not being better than someone else, success is the peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfacti on in knowing that you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable. John Wooden
self stubborn littles
A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.* William Shakespeare
self might affection
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.
self helping self-help
Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help! Mika
self anxiety panic-attacks
I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks. Dane Cook
self criticism vulnerable
I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability. Damian Kulash
selfish government names
Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated. Curtis White