Top 1200 Self Observation Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

Self-esteem should not be confused with self-confidence. Self-confidence is believing in your competence and your ability to do something, whereas self-esteem is believing in your goodness.

Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender it to the universe. If you are blissful, pour it back into the universe - don't carry it as a treasure. If you are feeling very happy, share it immediately - don't become attached to it, otherwise your meditation itself will become a new process of the self. And the ultimate meditation is not a process of self. The ultimate meditation is a process of getting more and more into un-self, into non-self - it is a disappearance of the self.

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation, political or religious propaganda, even advertising. A lifetime in front of a TV set may be the equivalent of a self transplant.

Learning about and from your customers isn't always easy and requires a commitment to continual observation.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.

Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.