I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Fashion can be about escapism but I have always been interested in the aspirational side of it - wanting to present the… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We're not going to reform our moronic land-use laws, which mandate suburban sprawl one way or another. They're simply going to be… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control? — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self… — Tara Brach 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
Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side,… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord. — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. — Dogen Copy Share Image
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image