Self Conscious Quotes - Page 11

• The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Ideas, Self

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• I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.

  Erma Bombeck

  Small Hands, Self, Space

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.  this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.  My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.  Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Silly, Eye, Long Ago

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin

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• But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Growth, Giants

  "The Life Divine: Art of living".

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• My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

  Richard Griffiths

  Vanity, Self, Feelings

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• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?" Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way. But Jacob rolled his eyes. "You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" "I'm serious." Well, then, thanks. Sort of." I grinned. "You're sort of welcome.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Jealous, Eye

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• I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Thinking, Self, Littles

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• …Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

  Richard Matheson

  Self, Way, Action

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it.

  Ed Helms

  Crazy, Mean, Self

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Twilight, Self

  Stephenie Meyer (2015). “Twilight Tenth Anniversary/Life and Death Dual Edition”, p.418, Hachette UK

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• What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

  Pam Grier

  Feminist, Sometimes, Treated

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

  Dylan Moran

  Jobs, Home, Self

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• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  Mandy Moore

  Girl, Growing Up, Self

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• I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.

  Jessica Alba

  Self, Embrace, Conscious

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I don't think I have changed my personality as much as I have evolved as a human. Before the name change, I was very timid, very self-conscious. Just not very confident. When I changed my name, it came from a place of power.

  Skylar Grey

  Thinking, Self, Names

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

  Richard Gere

  Insecure, Self, Conscious

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• I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

  Frank Gehry

  Book, Self, Way

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• I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have to live with, and I believe that our destiny as human beings is to become nature-conscious as well as self-conscious, living in loving relationship and in balance and in harmony, not only with one another, but with the entire natural world.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Destiny, Animal

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• From the first time he'd met her, he'd sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people's art and ideas.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Ideas, Air

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• Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

  Kate Moss

  Self, Judging, Conscious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Self, Talent, Conscious

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• Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

  Felicity Jones

  Meaningful, Self, Moments

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Girl, School, Mean

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 22, 2010.

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