Quotes about self
self hands circles
It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich. Paul Harvey
self awkward world
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"? Paul Goodman
self want clients
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest. Paul Arden
self next stories
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next. Paul Auster
selfish mean conservative
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. Pat Conroy
self-worth addiction house
You can Google everyone now, you don't have to peek through a window or wait till she leaves her house. You can look at her Instagram, she's takes selfies, posting images of her body parts for everyone to see. She seeks followers and craves attention to define her self worth. It's a dead end addiction to fame. Pamela Anderson
self sometimes
I sort of have to self-censor sometimes. Judah Friedlander
self hands giving
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.... Joseph Brodsky
self views voice
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.
selfish heart race
God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul. Little Richard
self musical records
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable. Leonard Woolf
self deception vision
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ... Nelson Algren
self tree together
You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did. Nell Freudenberger
self protect
You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self. Neil Strauss
self over-you chalk
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening. Rachel Johnson
self self-made made
I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself. Nia Long
self-esteem men democracy
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem. Niccolo Machiavelli
selfish men law
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. Noah Webster
self amusing conscious
Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans. Noam Chomsky
self done fields
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.
self law yugoslavia
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.
self people apathy
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.
self lawyer collections
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. Mike Oldfield
self-esteem struggle acceptance
Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize. Mike Myers
self-improvement nucleus sushi
There's always room for improvement. Joey Logano
self analysis action
It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action. Joe Sacco
self people doubt
I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt. Joe Mantello
selfishness salvation saved
To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness. John Greenleaf Whittier
self way imagine
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now. John Green
self diagnosis
I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.
self loathing monsters
Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.
self self-destructive self-destructive-behavior
There's nothing cool about being self-destructive. Patti Smith
self world rooms
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.