“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
“[...] this observing self often kills and withers anything that is under its scrutiny. The individual has now a persecuting observer in… — Anonymous 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
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle 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
“To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is… — Bruce Lee 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
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
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman 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
“For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
“*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
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
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
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
If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as… — Arthur E. Powell Copy Share Image
Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes… — Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer 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