Quotes about self
self smell people
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. E. M. Forster
self-confidence office history
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.
selfish mean marketing
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work! Abbas Kiarostami
self stories awareness
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. A. E. van Vogt
self numbness despair
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair. Adrienne Rich
selfish people done
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love. Agatha Christie
self-esteem esteem agree
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
self accompany-us world
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
selfish thinking
I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. Adrian Grenier
selfish indulge-in giving
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
self humanity liberty
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. Adam Smith
self needs opinion
I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. Adam Levine
self-confidence may acne
Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.
self taught classical-music
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. Adam Jones
self roots discipline
Self-respect is the root of discipline Abraham Joshua Heschel
self independence being-human
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
self light darkness
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
self people
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be. Abraham Maslow
self healthy feelings
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing
self-esteem psychological-health care
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
self modern psychological
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
self-esteem healthy fame
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
self people feelings
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.
self-esteem acceptance self-confidence
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
self perfection simplicity
A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.
self grace unbroken
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. Abraham Lincoln
self-esteem thinking fit
Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
selfish adversity light
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
selfish acting consuming
Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming. Alessandro Nivola
self outsiders congress
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. Aleksandar Hemon
self hatred form
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
self talking pity
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
selfish mistake emotion
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn