Self Quotes - Page 19

• Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Struggle, Identity, Way

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.

  Kyle Minor

  Suicide, Despair, Inability

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• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Struggle, Thinking, People

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

  Penn Jillette

  Stupid, Self Destructive, Destructive

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

  Moby

  Practice, Meditation, Criticism

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

  Ernest Cline

  Self Esteem, Guy, Champion

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.

  Debra Granik

  Country, Self Worth, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

  Alan Licht

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.

  George Hamilton

  Believe, People, Bored

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Michael Pollan

  Understanding, Taught, Plant

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. August 7, 2017.

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• I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

  Pete Seeger

  Determination, Believe, Fall

  Source: portside.org

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• I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain electronica. They kind of get really bored with the fact that it's so self-indulgent.

  Jason Reece

  Rocks, People, Sick

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.

  Jason Reece

  Rocks, Trying, Sound

  "And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Being Yourself, Advice, Want

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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• Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, War, Force

  "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

  Jason Mraz

  Thinking, Littles, Faces

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve.

  Queen Latifah

  Self Esteem, People, Trying

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• The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, Long, People

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Information Solutions Interview, www.experian.com.

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• I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

  Gore Vidal

  Fellows, Musings, Impressed

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• The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.

  Gore Vidal

  Army, World, Lifetime

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Believe, People, Enabling

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

  Byron Katie

  Self Esteem, Friendly, Lows

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Evolution, Online

  "Zuckerberg Talks To Charlie Rose About Steve Jobs, IPOs, And Google’s 'Little Version Of Facebook'". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.

  Chris Hardwick

  Jobs, Anchors, Careers

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

  David Shields

  Character, Critique

  Source: www.gq.com

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