Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew. — Dale Carnegie 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 voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves. — E. L. Doctorow 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
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure… — Donald G. Mitchell 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
“One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
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
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just… — Nick Hornby 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
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
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
Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
“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
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
“Man has "a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity, who can place himself imaginatively at a point in… — Ernest Becker 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
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’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
“In a deserted stretch of the Karadj highway Munis had come face-to-face with unbridled lust, although she knew what lust was before… — Shahrnush Parsipur Copy Share Image
“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
“Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie 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
“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
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