Quotes about self
self may language
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction. D. H. Lawrence
self games people
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
self profound encounters
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter. Conrad Aiken
self sometimes
One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.
self alive young
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. Claire Tomalin
self calm-mind soul
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from. Clarence Clemons
self self-reliance poverty
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance Daniel De Leon
self-esteem self-destruction cowardice
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. Daniel Defoe
self boss brain
While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no invisible boss in the brain, no central meaner, no unitary self in command of our activities and utterances. There's no internal spectator of a Cartesian theater in our heads to applaud the march of consciousness across its stage. Daniel Dennett
self practice leader
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? David Frum
self ethos people
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers. David Foster Wallace
self psychics toxic
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.
self lenses matter
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.
self people goes-on
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us. David Attenborough
self-esteem self weight
I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem. Dawn French
self culture achieve
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. David Platt
self safety concern
BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.
self deception helping
Self-deception helps us deceive. David Livingstone
self smoking wicked
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars Curtis LeMay
self-esteem issues female
Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues. Curtis Hanson
self should-have goal
When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself. Curtis Jackson
self way productivity
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. Corita Kent
self-esteem bigs belittle
Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.
self actors imagine
I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage. Corey Stoll
self realization self-realization
Self-realization is great. Corey Feldman
self endeavor worthy
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. Confucius
self-esteem hell force
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. Andre Malraux
self-esteem men office
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit. Andre Maurois
self self-pity pity
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
self-esteem appreciate insolence
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
self deliverance sin
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self. Andy Murray
self restraint indulgence
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo. Ambrose Bierce
self evident
Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.