In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them… — Harvey S. Firestone Copy Share Image
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ...… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got… — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — Plato Copy Share Image
“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image