Self Quotes - Page 36

• The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  Mean, Order, World

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• Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

  Gerhard Richter

  Secret, Want, Littles

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• My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

  Alan Garner

  Men, Grandfather, Library

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

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• Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Class, Missing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

  Napoleon Hill

  Goal, Focus, Over You

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• If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Emotional, Rejection

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• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Names, Labels

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

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• Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

  Seungsahn

  Mean, Voice, Sound

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• The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self Esteem, Men, Average

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost is the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit.

  William Lane Craig

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

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• No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Reading, Writing, Class

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• Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

  Elliott Abrams

  Needs, Allies, United States

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• Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

  Elon Musk

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

  Raymond Kelly

  Military, Marine, Principles

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• Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

  Charlie Pierce

  Congratulations, Pride, Ideas

  "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

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• There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.

  Charlie Pierce

  Government, Order, Political

  "The President Finally Accepts America for Ourselves" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 27, 2015.

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• In my very own self, I am part of my family.

  D. H. Lawrence

  My Family

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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• The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life. Inna Segal offers invaluable insights into the underlying causes of illness and disease and provides practical advice which will undoubtedly empower many to self-heal. So read on and learn from the wisdom of this book, which can guide you to the life you were truly meant to live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Book, Advice, Empowering

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• If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Children, Attitude, Kids

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• Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mistake, Believe, Patriotic

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.353, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me

  Jack Kerouac

  Strong, Thinking, Personality

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

  Julia Cameron

  Taken, Artist, Self Worth

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.90, Penguin

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• Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience

  Gunter Brus

  Wall, Support, Records

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• Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Ambition, Purpose

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah

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