Quotes about self
self-esteem men talking
Those who can't do, teach. And, as Woody Allen says, those who can't teach, teach gym. And, as I say, those who can't teach gym become experts. That's who we look to for answers these days-the people telling you how to make your marriage work. Men telling women how to raise their self-esteem. The only thing that cures everything is talking to people who have the same problem you do. The rest is just a moneymaking bullshit scheme that some asshole is getting rich on. Roseanne Barr
self done negative
I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief. Ronnie O'Sullivan
self-confidence needs mali
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music. Rokia Traore
self-esteem thinking people
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. Roger Ebert
self degrees
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. Rod Taylor
self ego feelings
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent. Rod Serling
selfish writing embrace
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.
self world splits
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are? Robin Morgan
self declaration
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. Robin McKinley
self play realization
Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives. Roberto Assagioli
self doubt process
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. Robert Sheckley
self promotion well-being
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. Robert Silverberg
self self-conscious conscious
I am very self-conscious a lot of the time. Robert Smith
self challenges goes-on
In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others. Satish Kumar
self glasses looks
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own. Sargent Shriver
selfish thinking bored
Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught? Sarah Mlynowski
selfish doe gabriel
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates. Sarah MacLean
self-confidence mouths taste
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. Sarah Kay
self
I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one. Sara Teasdale
self careers important
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating. Sandra Bernhard
self poison half
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
selfish eye heart
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
self heaven world
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. Samuel Rutherford
self-esteem mean law
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason. Samuel Johnson
self incentives emulation
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
self giving growth
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor
self doe watches
The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful. Sarah Polley
selfish moving mean
We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response. Robert Greene
selfish community desire
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch. Robert Baden-Powell
self data algorithms
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. Rob Pike
self speak awareness
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. Richard Leakey
selfish son selfless
My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless. Ricardo Antonio Chavira
self world replacements
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world. Richard Rorty