Top 1200 Sense Of Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

As a producer, it starts when I talk about privacy and silence. It starts before anybody believes in it. And I think that's, you have to have a real sense of self, and in order to push things through. And so often, what's interesting, is how many people dismiss an idea that eventually everybody [gloms] onto. So to me it's, that's what I mean by hard.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet.

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth