Self Consciousness Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

  Joe Dempsie

  Self, Consciousness, Performances

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

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• I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Sleep, Self, Facts

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

  Emmylou Harris

  Country, Children, Patriotic

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• An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Self, Ego

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• The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self, Feelings, Brain

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• ... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Self, Trying, May

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• I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of the trust between us. There isn't any real self-consciousness in the film because we all like each other.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attention

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 6, 2009.

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• He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Self, Knowing

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

  Gale Harold

  Block, Creativity, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

  Ernest Gellner

  Self, Awakening, Consciousness

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• Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Self, Consciousness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

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• Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

  Beth Moore

  Insecure, Men, Self

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• The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up for grabs. ... You're safe because you have an ironic distance from the coercive techniques I'm employing. All of them that is, except this one. Are you on your guard yet? Does it feel good? Of course not.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Distance, Self, Feel Good

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