Quotes about self
self improvement spontaneity
In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve. Dale Carnegie
self-improvement size persons
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
self expression human-nature
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.
selfish trying why-not
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.
self people competition
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
self-esteem apples orange
You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues. Craig Sheffer
selfish people care
Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves Claude C. Hopkins
selfish evil suffering
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. Clara Barton
self grain-of-salt would-be
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.
selfish moving ideas
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move. Daniel Smith
self doe fame
That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self. Daniel Radcliffe
self people identity
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
self-esteem potters height
I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.
self intellectual world
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
self defense judgment
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior? Dan Gelber
self want self-destructive
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do. Dan Harmon
self-esteem men trying
Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter. Cynthia Heimel
self ions soul
Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion. Clive Barker
self gigs able
I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything. Dylan Moran
self two strange
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote. E. B. White
selfish sight views
And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc. Duane G. Carey
selfish equity selfish-acts
Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity. Douglas Leone
self miracle mirages
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. Douglas Hofstadter
self-confidence feel-good want
Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents. Donald Trump
self self-righteous righteous
God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Dwight L. Moody
self practice leader
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? David Frum
self ethos people
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers. David Foster Wallace
selfish feeling-alone feelings
I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.
self psychics toxic
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.
self lenses matter
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.
self people goes-on
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us. David Attenborough
self-esteem self weight
I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem. Dawn French
selfish oedipus people
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason—instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods. David Simon