We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, always hovered in the space between self-consciousness and sterile detachment; my gracefulness was akin to that of… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
“The panic was there, staring me down in the face, all the time, like I had a hoodie on backwards and I… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Most people in the world have no soul-consciousness or self-consciousness. They only have societal consciousness. They have no time to think uniquely.… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness, however, does hinder the experience of the present. It is the one instrument that unplugs all the rest. So long as… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Moreover, probably owing to excessive self-consciousness, perhaps as the result of the generally unfortunate cast of my personality, there existed between my… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“This is it, I think, this is it, right now, the present, this empty gas station, here, this western wind, this tang… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Daisuke was the sort of man who, once he was disturbed by something, no matter what, could not let go of it… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised,… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
