Quotes about self
self definitions fields
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. Guy Kawasaki
self islands inventory
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
selfish character emotional
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own. Graeme Simsion
self closing expertise
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. Glenn Greenwald
self special groups
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. Ginny Brown-Waite
self given incomparable
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning. Gerry Spence
self world purpose
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest. Harold Geneen
selfish writing thinking
To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people. Gwen Stefani
selfish
It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.
self getting-older fabulous
Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.
selfless team totally
They've been totally selfless and they've been all about the team and they've been all about winning. Billy Donovan
self-esteem creative littles
I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself. Neil Diamond
self driven greater
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. Neil deGrasse Tyson
selfish bored problem
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem? Neil Gaiman
selfish giving scared
And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.
self long glitter
What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.
self people empathy
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
self world sin
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. John Piper
self-esteem healing soul
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.
self kind restless
Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self. John Novak
self law defense
As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense. John O. Brennan
selfish conceited rights
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! John Muir
selfish law people
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature. John von Neumann
self stranger individual
The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal. John W. Gardner
self-confidence successful essence
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence. John Rosemond
self denial worst
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. John Sterling
self intuition natural-instinct
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
self views feet
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. John Stott
self bored comfort
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. John Steinbeck
self-esteem self-love acquaintance
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
self mind denial
Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.
self-esteem men evil
According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"!
self-esteem biblical pride
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.