Quotes about self
self degrees
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. Rod Taylor
self ego feelings
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent. Rod Serling
selfish writing embrace
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.
self world splits
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are? Robin Morgan
self declaration
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. Robin McKinley
self play realization
Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives. Roberto Assagioli
self doubt process
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. Robert Sheckley
self promotion well-being
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. Robert Silverberg
self self-conscious conscious
I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. Robert Smith
self challenges goes-on
In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others. Satish Kumar
self glasses looks
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own. Sargent Shriver
selfish thinking bored
Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught? Sarah Mlynowski
selfish doe gabriel
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates. Sarah MacLean
self-confidence giving style
Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always. Yves Saint Laurent
self incomplete sentences
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words. William H. Macy
self-esteem thinking people
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. William Hazlitt
self fame interest
The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest. William Dean Howells
selfish race curse
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William E. Gladstone
self-confidence important gold
Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency. Wen Jiabao
self ifs paid
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. Wendell Pierce
self self-respect loses
You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect. Wendelin Van Draanen
self restraint killjoy
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. Wendell Berry
self issues abuse
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
self greed lazy
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.
self order sweat
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")
self choices world
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
self interesting people
To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people. Walter Pater
selfish fool loose-women
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. W. Somerset Maugham
self epilepsy feet
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
selfish men suffering-of-others
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
self atheism democracy
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
selfish empathy survival
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Yann Martel
self sloth three
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.