The Self Quotes

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

Click. The door swung open. "Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile. "Well done," Caroline said. He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.

I hate exercising self-control.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.

The self doubt can be a fantastic opportunity to self-reflect and see where you can grow and be stronger.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way.

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our business.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.