Top 1200 Self-Taught Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

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

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

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

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

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

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

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

I would say a lot of it came from a lot of different drills that Coach Fleck put me through. That's my man. He taught me a lot, a lot, a lot about receiver play. And he taught me a lot about catching the ball and just hand placement.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

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

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.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

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

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

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

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.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

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

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In this engaging and provocative book, Eldon Taylor provides his readers with specific ways in which their beliefs can lead to success or failure in their life undertakings. Each chapter provides nuggets of wisdom as well as road maps for guiding them toward greater self-understanding, balance, responsibility, and compassion.

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

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.