Quotes about self
self guy pay
I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard. Jack Canfield
self levels performances
Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.
self regimes paranoid
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. J. G. Ballard
self demand matter
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
self work-ethic kingdoms
Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
self rapids involvement
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.
self forever choices
Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves. J. I. Packer
self denial speak
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
self self-absorbed
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
self looks way
I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious. Ivana Milicevic
self people sides
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self. Ivy Compton-Burnett
selfishness unselfish persons
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
self yesterday missing
Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday. Italo Calvino
self dancer creative
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves. Isadora Duncan
self-esteem halos conscience
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. Irving Layton
self saws horror
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
self madness misanthrope
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
self design canvas
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.' Irving Stone
selfish people doe
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish? Jack Kevorkian
self healthy doubt
I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy. J. Cole
selfish comedian
A lot of comedians are selfish. J. B. Smoove
self cures righteousness
The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge. J. C. Ryle
self people shapes
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
selfishness want christ
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
self people savior
A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
self long prejudice
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. Isaac Watts
self space mind
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society Irving Howe
selfish believe thinking
I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people. Harry Belafonte
self political use
Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid. Harrison Ford
self personality core
The core of my personality consists of many selves. Hans Bender
self people doubt
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd. Hannah Kent
self deception self-deception
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. Hannah More
self patient foolish
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient. Guy Kawasaki