Self Destructive Quotes - Page 5

• I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

  Garth Stein

  Zebras, Fear, Self

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• I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hate, Self, Opposites

  "Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Fun, Self, Play

  "Interview: Chris O’Dowd on Shooting ‘The Sapphires’ in Vietnam and Taking a Role in ‘Thor 2’ for Fun". Interview with Mark Lukenbill, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

  Juan Williams

  Running, Party, Independent

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• Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

  Kristin Davis

  Nice, Wine, Self

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

  Ian Mcewan

  Football, Children, Stupid

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• The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

  Howard Barker

  Artist, Self, Destructive

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• Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.

  Jean Liedloff

  Real, Selfish, Fall

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• There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

  Axl Rose

  Self, Going For It, Cost

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• It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Thinking, Self

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

  Jesse Jackson

  Self, Want, Riot

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson appears at protest in Ferguson". "Hannity" with Andrea Tantaros, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2014.

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• The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Self

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

  Davey Havok

  Believe, Self, Drug Use

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• The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.

  Jules Henry

  Education, Children, Fall

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• Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

  Brené Brown

  Painful Feelings, Self, Perfect

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.111, Penguin

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• In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Writing, Self, Important

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• Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Self, Perfect

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• I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

  Sidney Poitier

  Self, Flames, Trying

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• Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, Thinking, Self

  "The Lost World". Book by Michael Crichton, 1995.

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• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  Tom Hollander

  Self, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

  Dalai Lama

  Past, Self, Victory

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• Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.

  Norman Geisler

  Lying, Believe, Self

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• One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive path when I feel pain. I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible. That is an impulse, when I feel out of control.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Pain, Self, Trying

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

  Thomas Sowell

  Attitude, Self, White

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