Self Quotes - Page 37

• The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.

  Carroll Quigley

  Government, Differences, People

  Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals", 1976.

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• Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

  Antonio Damasio

  Feelings, Would Be, Body

  "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  Antonio Damasio

  Simple, Brain, Mind

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

  Lynn Margulis

  Animal, Eggs, Provocative

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

  Ariel Pink

  Real, Rocks, Voice

  "Ariel Pink" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

  Ray Brassier

  Self Esteem, Philosophy, Opportunity

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• Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

  Reggie Watts

  Letting Go, Training, Enlightenment

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

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• Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

  Louis Zamperini

  Self Esteem, Winning, Race

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• Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Determination, Peculiar, Habit

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2499, Delphi Classics

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• Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Helping, Welcome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.37

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• It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Society, Taverns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of boundaries, for boundaries promote self-control and freedom. If a wife is not free and in control of herself, she is not submitting anyway. She is a slave subject to a slave driver, and she is out of the will of God.

  Henry Cloud

  Ideas, Wife, Slave

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.248, Zondervan

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• In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

  Vincent Nichols

  Flower, Sacrifice, Maturity

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• Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

  Li Keqiang

  Real, Sacrifice, Government

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• I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Art, Expression, Expectations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

  Andy Mineo

  Christian, Giving Up, Gains

  FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Jul 22, 2013

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• I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Self Confidence, Way

  "Michael Arndt Discusses Toy Story 3". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Book

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• A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

  Edwin Booth

  Art, Training, Doe

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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• Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

  John Wooden

  Thinking, People, Just Being

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted to say to smart, funny, self-effacing Ellen McCarthy after I finished reading The Real Thing. I loved every lesson laid out in a book that wouldn't dare to call itself a field guide to marriage but amounts to as much on every page. This is a deeply useful little book.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Smart, Real, Book

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• Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

  Trinny Woodall

  Children, Careers, Appearance

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• I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Reading, Conscious, Reviews

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