Self Quotations | Page 2

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external,

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

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?

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.