Self Quotes
I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always self-motivation.
I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.
Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
Even a child who's above average on self-control could improve their financial outcomes in mid-life if they improved their self-control skills early on.
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.
I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.
I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.
O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.
The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.
I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there are visionary elites.
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.
The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.
Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
