“I have buried my fears, abandoned self-consciousness, and allowed myself to slide into sensation. I like the person I have become.” — Rita Golden Gelman Copy Share Image
“For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, always hovered in the space between self-consciousness and sterile detachment; my gracefulness was akin to that of… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousnessóI wouldnít know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Personally, I find it very hard to absent myself from any situation, due to overwhelming self-consciousness. There's always a voice in my… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“ One of the most extraordinary things about about dogs is their total lack of self-consciousness. A dog never questions its own… — E.M. Crane Copy Share Image
“Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself.… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
“Man has "a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity, who can place himself imaginatively at a point in… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
“Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness. — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it. — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
With self consciousness guilty may turn into regret & self pity. When consciousness bites over guilt,extend acceptance & forgiveness. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure… — Donald G. Mitchell Copy Share Image
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm too vain to go on TV. I'd be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I've got a ridiculous voice - I sound… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“To see what they look like, women look at a mirror. To look like what they see, women read magazines.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image