If I told my 16-year-old self that, at 34, I'd have no kids and not be in a movie in America, I… — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. — Shannen Doherty Copy Share Image
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh,… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
If one day you see yourself holding on something there used to be there, hoping it come back, but knowing it won't,… — Andygawan 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
When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“Samadhi-maran (blissful death; awareness as 'I am Soul' during death) means there is no memory of anything other than the Self. There… — Dada Bhagwan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We do not know how to make ourselves feel worthwhile on our own, and unless we specifically learn how to value ourselves,… — Kevin Solomons Copy Share Image
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
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away,… — Jane Devin Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
