In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such… — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.” — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
When you're at peace with yourself, you'll have no cause to hate someone. When you've accepted yourself for who you are, you… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of… — Oseola McCarty Copy Share Image
The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. — Barry Long Copy Share Image
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
