Top 1200 Self-Conscious Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

I'm just very self-conscious about the way I look. I really am embarrassed of it, because I wish I wasn't like that.

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a certain state.

It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill.

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

I am very self-conscious about seeing myself on television but I do feel people relate to me so it's worth it.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

Never did I dream that while I was feeling so self-conscious and inadequate in the '60s, I was actually creating The Judith Durham Look!

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

I think as the largest democracy in the world, we have self-conscious filmmakers who can handle sensitive themes.

Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Self-care has to be a conscious effort, because I often think there's a whole family tree of people who come before I do.

Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

I was so awkward and gangly, and went through puberty way too young - I got really self-conscious about it.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in the spotlight.