Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream -… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“it is shame to be an impostor…it only means u gave up!…it is impossible to be perfect…but it is possible to believe… — woody Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know… — shujoy chowdhury Copy Share Image
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The One who devours (completely destroys) our ego and makes us viraat (divine & huge) is called the viraat-svaroop (divine manifestation). Only… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of… — Mark Hatfield Copy Share Image
“The world is not as people know it. The world is vikalpi (one with I-ness; belief of ‘I am Chandulal’), and vignan… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now,… — Bing Gordon Copy Share Image
“A believe in yourself is powerful enough to turn you into a world leader while self-doubt and self-pity are powerful enough to… — Nicky Verd Copy Share Image
I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true,… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and… — Andrew Comiskey Copy Share Image
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in… — Julio Olalla Copy Share Image
As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a… — Yesung Copy Share Image
As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as… — Manuel Castells Copy Share Image
