Self Consciousness Quotes - Page 3

• I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Drinking, Wine

  Source: the-talks.com

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• My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Bullying, Writing, Emotional

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, Self, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Believe, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.

  Cate Blanchett

  Beautiful, Thinking, Self

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Eye, Loss, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The powers of nature are so great, and our power is so inept. So,in order to cope with the incredible anxiety that human self-consciousness produced, I think we created God in our own image, and then portrayed this God as having supernatural power that we didn't have.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Self, Order

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

  Johann Gustav Droysen

  Self, Humanity, Consciousness

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• One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.

  Nan Goldin

  Self, Imperfection, Things I Love

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Recognition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Self, Consciousness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Blow, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Ignorance, Games, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Journey, Contemplative Life, Self

  Bernadette Roberts “Experience of No-Self, The: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition”, SUNY Press

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• When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Consciousness, Samadhi

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• The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

  Andrew Bird

  Talking, Self, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Book, Writing

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

  John Updike

  Self, Consciousness, Turns

  1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'

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• A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

  Peter Abrahams

  Dream, Book, Self

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• The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.

  James Redfield

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Ego

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• Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

  Andre Dubus

  Sports, School, Self

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Creativity, Eye

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• What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.

  Andrew Cohen

  Self, Fearless, Consciousness

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• I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

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