I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“When does Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self) arise? It begins after the Gnani Purush (enlightened One) makes you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities --… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Don't think because I'm a positive dude, I'm going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too… — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Even if you run in ‘this’ racecourse for endless lives, you will get cheated in the end; such is this world! Everything… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings… — Kenneth Wapnick Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The danger lies in how your ‘surplus time’ is spent. If the ‘surplus time’ is spent for one’s own Soul, then it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image