Self Conscious Quotes - Page 2

• Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Religious, Self, Liberty

  Edward Alsworth Ross (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

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• There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

  Tig Notaro

  Self, Feelings, Cameras

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Self, Blood

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.518, Macmillan

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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.

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Animal, Self

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

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• The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

  Wendy Beckett

  Dream, Self, Imagination

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• If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

  Doug Martsch

  Self, Doing You, Spurs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

  Neville Goddard

  Mind, Genius, Wealth

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Obscure, Deny

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Being Yourself, Command And Control

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.13, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Practice, Breathing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.71

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• I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

  Matthew Lewis

  Self, Actors, Stuff

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

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• I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Hands, Self, Guy

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• I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Self, Conscious, Disappointed

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

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• As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

  Freddie Highmore

  Character, Thinking About You, Caring

  "Freddie Highmore Talks ‘Toast,’ Working With Helena Bonham Carter And Growing Up". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

  Terry Gross

  Self, Invisible, Pleasure

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• 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.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

  Anita Desai

  Self, My Family, Conscious

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• 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.

  Sofia Coppola

  Self, Cameras, Conscious

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• When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

  Miranda July

  Writing, Thinking, Hypnosis

  "This much I know: Miranda July" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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• I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Stars, Philosophy, Self

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• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

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• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.

  Billy Campbell

  Lying, Self, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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