Self Quotes · Page 157

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

— Jonathan Miller

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

— Tori Amos

Pushing anyone down is like pushing your self to no where.

— Sheila Poblacion

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

— Joyce Meyer

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

— Veronica Roth

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

— Tullian Tchividjian

Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.

— Gabriel Iglesias

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

— Madonna Ciccone

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate…

— Julian Assange

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing,…

— Olaf Stapledon

When we're not living faithfully to our authentic self, we find ourselves feeling incomplete, as if there is a hole in our…

— Senoraroy

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification.…

— Susan Sontag

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected…

— Rem Koolhaas

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

— Al MacInnis

The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,…

— E. O. Wilson

What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric…

— Kenny Smith

I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience…

— Regina Spektor

At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves,…

— Galen Rowell

“[T]he horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our…

— David Foster Wallace

I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping…

— Erma Bombeck

And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text…

— Milorad Pavić

I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

— Goldie Hawn

Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn't self-love. It's self destruction.

— Laci Green

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

— Mason Cooley

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

— W. H. Auden

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

— Virginia Woolf

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

— Ouida

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't aim to be smart, I aim to be wise there's a difference.

— Zarah

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

— Jesse Jackson

“Learn to catch yourself and stop yourself immediately when you are engaging in negative self-talk.”

— Bryant McGill

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

— Romany Malco

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence