Self Conscious Quotes - Page 10

• I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Self, White

  "Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

  John Shelton Reed

  Thinking, Self, Ethnicity

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• I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I always played frigid doctors or the plain sisters who got the guy at the end. What did I know from ladies in caves who ate only meat? And when the outfit came in, I never thought of myself that way. I mean, I always thought of myself as having my father's chest. I was very self-conscious.

  Mariette Hartley

  Father, Mean, Doctors

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• I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

  Pierre Loti

  Past, June, Self

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• When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious.

  Lil B

  Self, Conscious, Walks

  "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU" by Duncan Cooper, www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

  Owen Gingerich

  Home, Self, Profound

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• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

  Richard Griffiths

  Vanity, Self, Feelings

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• But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Growth, Giants

  "The Life Divine: Art of living".

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• I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.

  Erma Bombeck

  Small Hands, Self, Space

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Humility, Self

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• There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

  Walther Rathenau

  Men, Race, Self

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• In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.  this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.  My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.  Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Silly, Eye, Long Ago

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin

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• I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

  Eddie Marsan

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  "Eddie Marsan: 'I Don't Have a Great Need to Be Liked by an Audience'". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2011.

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• Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Mean, Self

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• I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Self, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

  Coco Rocha

  Self, World, Conscious

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious.

  Ivana Milicevic

  Self, Looks, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

  St. Lucia

  Writing, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.

  St. Lucia

  Dark, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

  Matthew Specktor

  Self, Care, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

  Alejandra Deheza

  Song, Writing, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.

  Christopher Rice

  Moving, Writing, Self

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• I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.

  Paul Wesley

  Class, Self, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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