Self Quotes - Page 30

• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, Self Esteem, Eye

  Edith Wharton (1900). “The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone”

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• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

  Harry Houdini

  Training, Tasks, Thrill

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• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  America, Challenges, Shields

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

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• Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Country, Mean, Home

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• An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Ego, Shadow

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• There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

  Axl Rose

  Going For It, Cost, Appetite

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• Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

  Roseanne Barr

  Self Esteem, Roots, Evil

  "Roseanne: What I've Learned". www.esquire.com. March, 2001.

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• Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.

  MaryAnn F. Kohl

  Art, Children, Creativity

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• Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

  Tony Judt

  Responsibility, Past, Self Questioning

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.114, Penguin

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• From the   5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being   indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the   left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are   scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the   destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure,   thrills, and self-indulgence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Philosophy, Father

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• Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hate, Mean, Generosity

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “Krishnamurti's notebook”, Harper San Francisco

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• If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Giving, Sound

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• For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you.

  John de Ruiter

  Giving, Pure

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• When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Weakness

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• Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

  Ted Cruz

  Men, Wife, Eras

  "HUFFPOST HILL - Earth Has Day Even Though It’s Not Dead Yet", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2016.

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• My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

  William T. Vollmann

  Being Yourself, Father, White

  William T. Vollmann (2009). “Riding Toward Everywhere”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  Fernando Torres

  Team, Important, Disrespectful

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

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• If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Firsts, Calling, May

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• So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence and, indirectly, support the Western assertion that Islam is a "spent force".

  Muhammad Asad

  Self Confidence, Civilization, Long

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• When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

  Andy Warhol

  Pimples, Portraits, Looks

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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• The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  Mean, Order, World

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• Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

  Gerhard Richter

  Secret, Want, Littles

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• The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

  Thomas Woods

  Doe, Absurd, Rendering

  Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Kevin R. C. Gutzman (2008). “Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush”, p.92, Crown Forum

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• My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

  Alan Garner

  Men, Grandfather, Library

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

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