Self Quotes - Page 33

• If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Black, Defense

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• Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, Remember You, Remembers You

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• The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, Determination, War

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• Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Sleep, Men, Degrees

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

  Noam Chomsky

  Done, Fields, Taught

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Desire, Innocence

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• The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Discovery

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• I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it's always really dimensionalised.

  Vince Vaughn

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

  Jason Mraz

  Writing, Musician, Taught

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

  David Lee Roth

  Teenager, Tragedy, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Rights, Sight

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

  Mick Jagger

  Drama, Successful, Two

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• Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love.

  Kevin Hart

  Christian, Sacrifice, Love Is

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

  Jack White

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

  Richard Meale

  Taught, Study, Composition

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Pain, Adversity, Blessing

  "Tony Shalhoub Says Goodbye to Monk". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.

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• No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Parent, Identity, World

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Thinking, Grandparent

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

  Kurt Fuller

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Web Of Life, Harmony

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Balance, World

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the Earth. In my waking rational life I often forget about the Earth, or I get worried or confused by contradictory information. With my dreaming brain I can have access to powerful images of what is going on in the Earth, from day to day.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Powerful, Confused

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Done, Matter, Honest

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

  Diane Keaton

  Beautiful, People, Depth

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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