Self Conscious Quotes - Page 2

• Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

  Tig Notaro

  Self, Feelings, Cameras

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Religious, Self, Liberty

  Edward Alsworth Ross (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Animal, Self

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

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• The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

  Wendy Beckett

  Dream, Self, Imagination

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• The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Self, Blood

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.518, Macmillan

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• If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

  Doug Martsch

  Self, Doing You, Spurs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

  Neville Goddard

  Mind, Genius, Wealth

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Being Yourself, Command And Control

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.13, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Obscure, Deny

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Practice, Breathing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.71

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• I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

  Terry Gross

  Self, Invisible, Pleasure

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• I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Self, Conscious, Disappointed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Hands, Self, Guy

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• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

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• Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

  Christopher Nolan

  Mistake, Thinking, Self

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions

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• One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.

  Ricky Williams

  Fun, Self, Who I Am

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• When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

  Anita Desai

  Self, My Family, Conscious

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.

  Marketa Irglova

  Nice, Writing, Doors

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• Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.

  David Shi

  Beautiful, Self, Essence

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• I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

  China Mieville

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

  Matthew Lewis

  Self, Actors, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Thinking, Self, Essence

  Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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