Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good. — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Be soul-conscious not self-conscious. Self-consciousness is egocentric and soul-consciousness is spiritual.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“A leader who allows their subordinates to suffer as proof of who is the boss likely quenches their thirst with salt water… — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army Copy Share Image
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The powers of nature are so great, and our power is so inept. So,in order to cope with the incredible anxiety that… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the… — Ari Graynor 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
“Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of [the divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself? A. No, it is more difficult. If you become… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“you're instantly in a bind once you arrive here on earth, of need, self-will, a body and a separate personality, even before… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Csíkszentmihályi, a very brilliant psychologist, believed that what he called Flow was a state of complete absorption which produced the highest level… — Tania Kindersley Copy Share Image
“Blind thinking… could make me pretend I was being true to myself when really I was only being true to an infantile… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging… — Osho Copy Share Image
“this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
“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
“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
“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
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