Quotes about self
self risk world
If The World Does Not Change Course, We Risk Self-Destruction. Mohamed ElBaradei
selfish stuff kind
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. Moby
self years drunk
These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.
self people body
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.
self practice meditation
There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.
self-esteem lows self
Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.
self want skinny
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it. Mindy Kaling
self always-trying needs
There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don’t beat myself up over it.
self twenties destructive
I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. Kirk Hammett
self effort mind
Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him. Kenneth Roberts
self lasts wagons
You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon. Kenneth Williams
self feelings emotion
There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project. Kenny Chesney
self-esteem lows self
I've suffered from low self-esteem. Ken Kercheval
self differences people
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything. Karl Marx
selfish men trying
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.
self fundamentals accumulation
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.
self return moments
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.
selfish sacrifice people
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.
self people matter
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
selfish book reading
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy. Kajol
self lasts firsts
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. Nick Hornby
self numbers people
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality. Mary Matalin
self analysis constant
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis. Mary MacLane
self restraint self-restraint
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
self self-conscious conscious
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious. Mary-Louise Parker
self-esteem communication character
Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice. Marvin J. Ashton
self practice goal
If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.
self-esteem criticism bruised
Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.
self-esteem helping should
We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.
selfish inspiration
All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish Mark Twain
self order organization
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism. Nicholas Negroponte
self sunglasses satisfaction
As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'" Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. "did Confucius really say that?" Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. "No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that? Nicholas Sparks
selfish mean reality
he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape.