Self Quotes - Page 39

• that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.

  Richard Sibbes

  Self Confidence, Shame, Ends

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.4247, Titus Books

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• Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Drug, Done

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• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  Alexander Gardner

  Religious, Book, Buddhism

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• I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Hero, Writing, Intelligent

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• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  Rachel Cusk

  Musical, Want, Release

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• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

  Rachel Cusk

  Art, Writing, Mind

  "Rachel Cusk", www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

  Steve Aylett

  Ideas

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• People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.

  Rachel Johnson

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "Rachel Johnson: the iron lady" by Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

  James Lasdun

  Self Confidence, Emotion, Easy

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• The only love language is 'die to self.'

  Christine Caine

  Language, Only Love, Dies

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• A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Glasses, Imperfection

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Book, Son, Doctors

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• All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

  Merlin Mann

  Buddhism, Helping, Mark

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• Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Boys, Skills

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• In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

  Ann Voskamp

  Stress, Struggle, Worry

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  Sadie Jones

  Moving, Thinking, Waiting

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• The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Views, Mountain, Clear View

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  Hannah Kent

  People, Doubt, Arena

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Military, Believe, Struggle

  "Rached Ghannouchi: the FP interview". Interview with Marc Lynch, foreignpolicy.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  Arthur Evans

  Real, School, Character

  Arthur Evans (1978). “Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy”, Bookpeople

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• Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Thinking, Choices

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• One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.

  Philip Sherrard

  Views, Hands, Order

  Philip Sherrard (1992). “Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology”, Sophia Perennis

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• I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

  Steve Gleason

  Thinking, Missing, Focus

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• All of management is about self-confidence

  Jack Welch

  Self Confidence, Management

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• I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Determined, Pompous, Understood

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