Self Consciousness Quotes - Page 5

• The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Self, Law, Voice

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.124, Random House

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• As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.

  Glen Hansard

  Song, Self, Play

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

  Herbert Croly

  Years, Self, Growth

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.

  Ari Graynor

  Numbers, Self, Laughing

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

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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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• It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Animal, Emotional

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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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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• 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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• Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Writing, Self

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.

  Brenda Ueland

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Design, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.487, Spectra

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• To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.

  Ellen Willis

  Self, Expression, Erotic

  "Historical Analysis". "Dissent", Winter 2005.

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• Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.

  Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

  Eye, Self, Looks

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• When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Matter, Consciousness

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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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• When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

  Virginia Woolf

  Self, Perception, Consciousness

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• More than his exterior hit me. I felt warm and safe just being with him. He brought comfort after my terrible day. So often with other people I felt a need to be center of attention, to be funny and always have something clever to say. It was a habit I needed to shake. But with him I never felt like I had to be anything more than what I already was. I didn’t have to entertain him or think up jokes or even flirt. It was enough to just be together, to be so completely comfortable in each other’s presence—we lost all sense of self-consciousness.

  Richelle Mead

  Clever, Thinking, Flirting

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• Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Self, Stories, Consciousness

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• In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

  Margaret Deland

  Self, Connections, Modesty

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.236, The Floating Press

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• The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Art, Self

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.10, London : Strahan

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Editing, Self, Kind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

  Jo Coudert

  Confidence, Quiet Moments, Self

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• What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Thinking, Light, Self

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

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