The Self Quotes
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.
I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process
Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.
I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.
the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.
The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.
Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.
We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.
You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.