Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosa Luxemburg

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.

Rosa Luxemburg

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

Ron Perlman

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

Ron Perlman

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

Rolf Harris

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

Roland Gift

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

Roland Joffe

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

Roger Zelazny

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Susan Rice

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Susan Orlean

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

Susan Glaspell

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

Susan Faludi

Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

Susan Blackmore

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

Susan Blackmore

All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming ... We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and "I" own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.

Susan Cain

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

Susan Cain

Every American was to become a performing self.

Susan Cain

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

Sugata Mitra

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Sufjan Stevens

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.

Thomas a Kempis

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance,

Thomas A. Edison

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

Thomas A. Edison

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Shia LaBeouf

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Shia LaBeouf

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

Shelagh Delaney

My usual self is a very unusual self.

Sharon Salzberg

At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Shannen Doherty

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Natalie Merchant

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Natalie Goldberg

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Taylor Swift

I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.