Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

With each day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It is no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you simply have to run faster then others to survive

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your fears. Know your irritations. Know your pleasures, joy and happiness. Know your mental wounds. Go deeper and examine every feeling you have.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.