Quotes about self
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-esteem mean feelings
Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way. Amy Cuddy
self play feelings
The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt.
selfish responsibility thinking
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities. Ann Richards
self-confidence self weakness
Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. Angela Ahrendts
self different ready
I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens. Angel Olsen
self yes-and-no debate
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. Anatole Broyard
self voice boredom
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self. Anais Nin
self culture tasks
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
self cities needs
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
self should
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
self suffering causes
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
self indulge-in imagination
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
self self-destruction destruction
destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
self world monsters
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
self needs hunger
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
self balance association
Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.