Top 1200 Self Absorption Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

I think skateboarding is hugely challenging - it teaches you self-confidence, it teaches you self-motivation, and it can be something that helps you throughout your life.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered."

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

I guess I'm rather self-destructive, and I like to give other people who are self-destructive a song to sing.

The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and to ways of thinking that merely amplify superstition, self-deception, and conflict.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

I heard I was the self-proclaimed White Mamba, which I can say I have never self-proclaimed myself anything.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.

Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps me to serve others. With self fulfillment, feeling good is the product. With self development, feeling good is the by-product.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.

Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.

The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?