“For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen 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
“Indeed, as we have seen, God is the most immediate implication of self-consciousness.” — Luigi Giussani Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, trauma and crisis are necessary catalysts to stimulate self-consciousness.” — Rollo Tomassi Copy Share Image
“Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of… — C.S. Lewis 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
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew. — Dale Carnegie 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
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Personally, I find it very hard to absent myself from any situation, due to overwhelming self-consciousness. There's always a voice in my… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
“*Live fast, die young, and, leave a good looking corpse.* is dumb. When dead, looks matters not. (Furthermore, the corpse will only… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers 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
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon 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
“On being conscious of being a writer: As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to… — John Updike 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
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus 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
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image