Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
“I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Growing up, even finding all those notes that you write in first grade to your future self of like what you want… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God;… — William Law Copy Share Image
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We need to learn to accept ourself, our past, our circumstances as they are, without necessarily thinking of them as bad. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and… — Dean Graziosi Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Self-awareness is a pain in the ass when there are so many entertaining reality shows on cable. And excuses are easy. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long,… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
“When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 10-years old I was at that proverbial fork in the road and I was acting as much… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image