Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bela Bartok

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

Bede Griffiths

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

B. R. Ambedkar

Learn to live in this world with self-respect

B. H. Liddell Hart

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

B. F. Skinner

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Billy Corgan

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Bill Crawford

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.

Cormac McCarthy

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

Albert Schweitzer

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

David Levithan

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Beyonce Knowles

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Erich Fromm

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

Flannery O'Connor

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Giorgio Armani

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

Monk Frost

Our opinion varies as the tide of see.

Bertrand Russell

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Rick Gibson

That was the game, those two (baskets) in my opinion were the game.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

David Wilder

He effectively rejected the opinion of the Supreme Court.

Kerry Sutton

We've been told there is a video of the identification process, and in my opinion we should have it by now.

Charles Darwin

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.