“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
I'm too vain to go on TV. I'd be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I've got a ridiculous voice - I sound… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God,… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
“Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
“The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself.… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“What is this Self, and how did the Shaiva philosophers of Kashmir experience It? They assert that the Self alone has absolute… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“To see what they look like, women look at a mirror. To look like what they see, women read magazines.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it. — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness. — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousnessóI wouldnít know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
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