Self Quotes - Page 38

• Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Photography, Doe, Eras

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• I've always been a very self-aware person.

  Troy Polamalu

  Persons

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• The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self.

  Mooji

  Play, Ideas, Mind

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• Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.

  Mooji

  Fighting, Discovery, Ice

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• The Self cannot leave You.
  Awareness cannot leave You.
  Everything else will leave You.
  But Awareness is what You Are.

  Mooji

  Awareness

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Broken, Abnormal

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: 'No way. I mean, how?' If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Mean, Way

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• I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

  Chris Lilley

  Actors, Littles, Conscious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Confusion, Meditation

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• We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

  Gary L. Francione

  Bird, Underwater, Ability

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• I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Writing, Intense, Form

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. March 27, 2012.

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• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Jobs, Passion, Self Confidence

  "Cisco CTO: Women Need To Break Down Walls In The Male-Dominated Tech Industry" by Kevin McLaughlin, www.businessinsider.com. June 20, 2013.

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• I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.

  Nathalie Handal

  Country, Children, Writing

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• Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

  Imogen Heap

  Thinking, Doubt, Useless

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• What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Book, Goal, Novelists

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• I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

  Hannah Hoch

  People, Wish, Boundaries

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• You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Tree, Together, Substance

  Nell Freudenberger (2012). “The Newlyweds”, p.207, Vintage

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• I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.

  Daniel Suarez

  Mean, Thinking, Cells

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• In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Real, Reflection, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Dec 12, 2016

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• My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

  Christine McVie

  Song, Speak

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• If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

  Charles Jencks

  Tree, Looks, Variation

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• Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, its up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. Its all got to get done; how you do it is up to you. You need a lot of self-discipline, but luckily, I have it.

  Jason Dolley

  Home, Discipline, Needs

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• Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Hero, Mean, People

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• The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Lying, Wrestling

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• He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Loss, Promise, Mind

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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