American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“i was told i was conceited today.... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect.... but… — arik maldonales Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image