Self Contained Quotes

• Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

  Christopher Meloni

  Crazy, Character, Self

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• God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

  Sivananda

  Self, Satisfaction, Eternal

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• Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Friendship, Mistake, Women

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• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, Moments, Better Future

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• The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

  Stephen Hawking

  Boundaries, Conditions, Universe

  Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose (2010). “The Nature of Space and Time”, p.79, Princeton University Press

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• If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Men, Privilege

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• You create a good future by creating a good present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive Thinking, Creating, Better Future

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• One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.

  Stephen Hawking

  Self, Would Be, Boundaries

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.

  Naomi Wolf

  Girl, Unique, Boys

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• When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Self, Order

  Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

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• Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.

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• The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

  Billy Graham

  Home, School, Parenting

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• Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

  Paul Klee

  Healing, Light, Self

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, Self

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

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• Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

  Susan Cain

  Drama, Reality, Self

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Self, Individuality, World

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1997). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.106, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Philosophy, Knowledge

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• [Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he's a little more ironic from time to time. But as I say, that's just work in progress.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Self, Ironic, Wish

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Dark, Animal

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

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• Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

  Theodor Adorno

  Discovery, Self, Individual

  Theodor W. Adorno (2015). “Introduction to Sociology”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun

  Lewis Thomas

  Distance, Moon, Self

  The Lives of a Cell "The World's Biggest Membrane" (1974)

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• Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

  Lisa Hunt

  Life, Self, Design

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• Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Believe, Self

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• It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Reality, Self

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

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• So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Self, Long

  "Faith and Reason" with Margaret Wertheim, www.pbs.org. September 11, 1998.

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