Quotes about self
self long people
Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people. D. L. Hughley
self poetry admitting
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self. D. H. Lawrence
selfish california effort
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
self soul phrases
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
self my-family
In my very own self, I am part of my family.
self pity surface
Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
self devil casting
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
self may language
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
self games people
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
self profound encounters
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter. Conrad Aiken
self sometimes
One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.
self alive young
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. Claire Tomalin
self calm-mind soul
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from. Clarence Clemons
self self-reliance poverty
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance Daniel De Leon
self-esteem self-destruction cowardice
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. Daniel Defoe
self boss brain
While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no invisible boss in the brain, no central meaner, no unitary self in command of our activities and utterances. There's no internal spectator of a Cartesian theater in our heads to applaud the march of consciousness across its stage. Daniel Dennett
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 bears unhappiness
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. Dorothea Brande
self-esteem able levels
You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them Donna Summer
self people leader
A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her). Don Rittner
self-esteem matter pieces
I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place. Dale Earnhardt
self worry decision
Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder. Dale Carnegie
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.
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