Quotes about self
self battle trying
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. Billy Campbell
self people waiting
Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.
self want principles
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... Boris Pasternak
self people needs
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
self may
I have to live with both my selves as best I may. Brigitte Bardot
self-esteem self-confidence thinking
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? Brigham Young
self coaching development
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. Brendon Burchard
self-esteem positive-thinking acceptance
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. Brennan Manning
selfish butterfly eagles
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
self choices important
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.
self wonder intimacy
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
self-worth play embrace
How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
self who-we-are authentic-self
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
self silence quiet
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
self goal perfection
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
self truly
One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.
selfish practice principles
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Jane Austen
selfish men feelings
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
selfish men cold-hearted
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....
self wild-imagination literature
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
self-esteem college years
I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about! Anna Chlumsky
self shining joy
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too? Ann Voskamp
self government contradiction
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. Alastair Reynolds
self media regulation
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed. Alastair Campbell
self males alpha-male
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
self views skills
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility Albert Bandura
self outcomes causality
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
self people may
Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully
self tasks levels
Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy
self action belief
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
self evaluation standards
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
self-esteem insecure people
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
self reactions self-efficacy
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others