There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. — David Foster Wallace 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
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“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
“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?” — Mark Doty 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
The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt. — Dov Davidoff 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
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
“It's funny. When we first started hanging out I didn't want Ashley to think I was a pig, so I was careful… — Natasha Friend Copy Share Image
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith… — Robert Anton Wilson 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
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes.… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a… — Chogyam Trungpa 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
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and… — Ashim Shanker 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
“Indeed, as we have seen, God is the most immediate implication of self-consciousness.” — Luigi Giussani Copy Share Image
When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end. — Frederick Lenz 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
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
“For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I have buried my fears, abandoned self-consciousness, and allowed myself to slide into sensation. I like the person I have become.” — Rita Golden Gelman Copy Share Image
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward. — John Updike Copy Share Image
For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness -… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take. — Gilbert Ryle 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
Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
