Sense Of Self Quotes - Page 3

• You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Thinking, Knowing, Self

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

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• Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Self

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• I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Cocky, Self Worth

  "Will Ferrell: The King of Comedy Opens Up" By Holly Millea, www.elle.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

  Craig Ferguson

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Comedy

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• College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

  Claire Danes

  College, Self, Essentials

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• It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Self, Technique, Body

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• The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, Self Confidence

  "Interview with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie". Interview with Piers Morgan Tonight, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 14, 2011.

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• I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

  Kristen Stewart

  Birthday, Strong, Self

  "Kristen Stewart interview: vampire's girl turns rock rebel". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 20, 2010.

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• Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

  Lewis Thomas

  Opportunity, Two, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Daily Life, Concern

  Fourth Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland, July 25, 1971.

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• The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Introduction

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• Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

  Hayden Christensen

  Self, Trying, Method

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• You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course I do- I've always had a strong sense of self. Your house is quiet now, you're sleeping upstairs and I'm alone with this blasted, idiotic book that purports to tally the sum of my life, and fact is, maybe I do. But maybe, ka-lyrra, your God doesn't believe in me. -- From The (Greatly Revised) Black Edition Of The O'Callaghan Book of the Sin Siriche Du

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Believe, Book

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1384, Dell

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• I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

  David Levithan

  Teacher, Gay, Self

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.8, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

  Aberjhani

  Self, Psychics, Awareness

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Impact, Self

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• What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Grief, Struggle, Ghetto

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• I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Self, Twenties

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• The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Self, Safety

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

  Jack Kornfield

  Struggle, Heart, Self

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.162, Random House

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• ...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.

  Antonio Damasio

  Powerful, Simple, Light

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• With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Self, People, Identity

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• Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Health, Buddhism

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• Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

  Erving Goffman

  Identity, Cracks, World

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• The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Self Esteem, Team, Party

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.9, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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