Quotes about self
self russia peaceful
The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone. Rand Paul
self community consciousness
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community. Ralph Nader
selfish years supportive
We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other. Rajon Rondo
selfish helping-others artist
I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do. Raekwon
self blood soldier
Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution. Shashi Tharoor
self how-to-love neighbor
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. Shane Claiborne
self intimate crisis
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. Seamus Heaney
self joy world
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.
self location ifs
If self is a location, so is love.
self want
I don't want to be my extravert self all the time. Mick Jagger
selfish people want
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
self needs sometimes
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. Michael Patrick King
self shapes size
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others Michael Pollan
self understanding taught
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.
selfish practice people
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
selfish insecure way
Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure. Sidney Poitier
self two people
If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle. Sholom Aleichem
selfish writing thinking
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating. Sherman Alexie
selfish native-american needs
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
self letters scripture
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. Sebastian Franck
self car looks
Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. Sebastian Thrun
self-esteem self-pity narcotics
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. Sebastian Horsley
self risk way
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't? Sebastian Junger
self joy naked
This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion. Sebastian Faulks
self talking two
When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural. Tom Courtenay
selfish struggle occupation
My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.
self political may
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle. Tom DeLay
self ideas people
What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used. Todd Solondz
self bridges hype
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
self people tunes
People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something. Todd Rundgren
self disaster transcendent
When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster. Slash
self color tears
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being. Slavoj Zizek
self discipline dancer
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. Siobhan Davies