Quotes about self
selfish vanity goal
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. Richard Dawkins
selfish mean science
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.
selfish opposites society
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
selfish science survival
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
selfish philosophical thought-provoking
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
self-esteem ego locks
You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse. Robin Williams
self-esteem years anorexia
When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem. Tracey Gold
self america people
The people in Miami are so different from anywhere else I've been in America. They're so down to earth, really friendly, and quite self-effacing, with a good sense of humor. I'm not saying other parts of America don't have a sense of humor, but Miami maybe has to have a really good sense of humor for lots of different reasons, and it works. It works for me. Tracey Emin
self labels want
The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go. Tony Visconti
selfish philosophy black
What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today. Steve Winwood
self serving self-serving
Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton Veronica Roth
selfish love-you sacrifice
About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.
selfish staples
A lot of music comes from a selfish place… Vince Staples
self fans not-afraid
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor. Vince Vaughn
self space despair
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest. Rebecca Solnit
self
Say yes to your self. Say no to your anti-self. Robert G. Allen
self way should
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal. Robert Green Ingersoll
self-harm ears way
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm. Rudyard Kipling
self miserable blind
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person. Rosemary Mahoney
self trying needs
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy. Sandra Cisneros
self-improvement desire increase
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. Samuel Johnson
self redemption impossible
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. Salvatore Quasimodo
self flats modeling
By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient. Sadie Frost
selfish good-man mentor
I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons. Ryan Gosling
self expression support
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.
self-esteem things-in-life balance
I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem. Roxane Gay
self trying use
The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.
self giving desire
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God. Rowan Williams
self massage parlor
I went to a massage parlor, it was self service. Rodney Dangerfield
self jerk neighbor
They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?
self world immediacy
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die Roberto Unger
self doubt important
The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless. Robertson Davies
selfish trouble young
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.