Quotes about self
selfish passion true-passion
Our true passions are selfish. Stendhal
self talking ideas
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. Stanley Crouch
self doubt easy
I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy. Sigourney Weaver
self psychological constructs
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. Sigmund Freud
self years fifty
Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.
self ideas people
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.
self longing form
Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
self-worth house ego
The ego is not master in its own house.
self-confidence knowing goal
Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.
self-esteem color people
With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.
selfish men interesting
He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting. Shirley Jackson
self loathing truth-is
The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. Shirley Manson
self-knowledge know-me if-i-could
If I could know me, I could know the universe. Shirley MacLaine
self who-i-am used
I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.
self america way
In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.
self secret life-happiness
Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life! Sheri Fink
self-esteem thinking giving
I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem. Shelley Long
self-confidence makeup self
There's no better makeup than self-confidence. Shakira
self careers goal
The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we don't know how to create, and the goals we want to achieve. It is by getting in touch with ALL the parts of ourselves - by having a gentle dialogue with all the "selves" we have inside - that we integrate them into a more comfortable, peaceful way of being with ourselves. Shakti Gawain
self-love desire love-myself
As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.
self musician sitting
For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded. Steven Price
selfish victory skins
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too. Steven Pressfield
self miracle revision
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
self giving preparation
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.
self definitions resistance
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
self mind needs
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.
self enemy opponents
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
self soul doubt
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.
self long-ago mastery
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
self validation needs
And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station Steven Morrissey
self-esteem school kids
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned. Steven Pinker
self empathy violence
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
self brain attention
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.