Self Quotes - Page 39

• A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

  Chris Brown

  Men, Inward, Attire

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• A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to TV Guide. I knew how to make a presentation.

  Michael Ovitz

  Kids, Hands, Energy

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• At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Greatness, Challenges, Promise

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• A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

  Jakob Bohme

  Shepherds, Dominion, Spirit

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• In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Mean, Water

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• We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

  Derek Parfit

  Imagination, Might, Belief

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• The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning.

  Heinz Kohut

  Perfection, Trying, World

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• The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.

  Carroll Quigley

  Government, Differences, People

  Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals", 1976.

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• All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

  Lynn Margulis

  Animal, Eggs, Provocative

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

  Ariel Pink

  Real, Rocks, Voice

  "Ariel Pink" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

  Reggie Watts

  Letting Go, Training, Enlightenment

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

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• Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

  Louis Zamperini

  Self Esteem, Winning, Race

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• In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

  Vincent Nichols

  Flower, Sacrifice, Maturity

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• Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

  Andy Mineo

  Christian, Giving Up, Gains

  FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Jul 22, 2013

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• I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Self Confidence, Way

  "Michael Arndt Discusses Toy Story 3". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

  John Wooden

  Thinking, People, Just Being

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

  Trinny Woodall

  Children, Careers, Appearance

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• I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

  Hannah Hoch

  People, Wish, Boundaries

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• I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Issues, Guy, Guilt

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• The Self cannot leave You.
  Awareness cannot leave You.
  Everything else will leave You.
  But Awareness is what You Are.

  Mooji

  Awareness

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• If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: 'No way. I mean, how?' If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Mean, Way

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• I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

  Chris Lilley

  Actors, Littles, Conscious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

  Steve Gleason

  Thinking, Missing, Focus

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• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Jobs, Passion, Self Confidence

  "Cisco CTO: Women Need To Break Down Walls In The Male-Dominated Tech Industry" by Kevin McLaughlin, www.businessinsider.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

  Imogen Heap

  Thinking, Doubt, Useless

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