Top 1200 Self Observation Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.