Quotes about self
selfish practice people
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? Michael Pollan
selfish insecure way
Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure. Sidney Poitier
self flames trying
I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.
self two people
If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle. Sholom Aleichem
selfish writing thinking
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating. Sherman Alexie
selfish native-american needs
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
self letters scripture
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. Sebastian Franck
self car looks
Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. Sebastian Thrun
self-esteem self-pity narcotics
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. Sebastian Horsley
self risk way
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't? Sebastian Junger
self joy naked
This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion. Sebastian Faulks
self talking two
When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural. Tom Courtenay
selfish struggle occupation
My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.
self political may
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle. Tom DeLay
self ideas people
What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used. Todd Solondz
self bridges hype
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
self people tunes
People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something. Todd Rundgren
self disaster transcendent
When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster. Slash
self color tears
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being. Slavoj Zizek
self discipline dancer
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. Siobhan Davies
self growth mature
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. Sissela Bok
self-esteem thinking people
I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems. Sinead O'Connor
self-esteem cancer unique
From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with. Rajneesh
self giving doers
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later it will become habitual. You will do it and you will not be the doer; you will do it just because of the force of habit.
self space holiness
If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood, the very ground of God. If you can love non-being then nothing can destroy you, you have transcended time and space. Then you have become one with the total, and this is what holiness is - to become whole is to be holy.
selfish love-you miscellaneous
Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.
self cameras conscious
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. Sofia Coppola
self leader shadow
Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person. Snoop Dogg
self names ideas
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear. Siegfried Woldhek
self going-with-the-flow belief
I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. Melanie Brown
self belief capacity
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. Michael Shermer
self interesting groups
My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology.However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects. Michael Scott
self-esteem love-you way
I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang) Sherrilyn Kenyon