Self Quotes - Page 35

• Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, War, Knowing

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

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• I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

  Christopher Lee

  Emotional, Thinking, People

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• People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Believe, People, Complacency

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.358, Modern Library

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• Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

  John Barth

  Loathing, Self Loathing, Loathe

  John Barth (2014). “Giles Goat-Boy”, p.83, Anchor

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• Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

  Carl Jung

  Practice, Important, Here And There

  "The Secret Of The Golden Flower". Book by Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung, archive.org. 1931.

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• It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Real, Goal

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• Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

  Wesley Clark

  Smart, Self Esteem, Years

  "Wesley Clark: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

  Jess Walter

  Promotion, Self Promotion

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• Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

  Meg Rosoff

  Writing, Dark, Mind

  "How to write fiction: Meg Rosoff on finding your voice". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Self Esteem, Men, Feelings

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• So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

  Louise Glück

  Wall, Taken, Thinking

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, Squares

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Real, Thinking

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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, Ego, Shadow

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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

  Going For It, Cost, Appetite

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• Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.

  MaryAnn F. Kohl

  Art, Children, Creativity

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• Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

  Tony Judt

  Responsibility, Past, Self Questioning

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.114, Penguin

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• If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Giving, Sound

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• For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you.

  John de Ruiter

  Giving, Pure

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• Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

  Ted Cruz

  Men, Wife, Eras

  "HUFFPOST HILL - Earth Has Day Even Though It’s Not Dead Yet", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2016.

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• My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

  William T. Vollmann

  Being Yourself, Father, White

  William T. Vollmann (2009). “Riding Toward Everywhere”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  Fernando Torres

  Team, Important, Disrespectful

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

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• If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Firsts, Calling, May

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• When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

  Andy Warhol

  Pimples, Portraits, Looks

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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