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
The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“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
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
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually… — Anne Rice 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
“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
“You must again realize that we speak of the self as being so divided only for simplicity’s sake. While the self is… — Jane Roberts 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
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own… — Ella Maillart 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
However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Truthfully, you're not your audience, so all that self-consciousness and all that - it gets in the way of you actually just… — Zelda Williams Copy Share Image
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. — Susan Sontag 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
You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
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
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
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
“To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“For a shy person it’s hard enough to overcome self-consciousness and establish personal relationships with others without having the additional hindrance of… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
![“I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of the trust between us. There isn't any real self-consciousness in the film because we all like each other.” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/steven-sebring-14700_bedroom_i-think-those-moments-in-patti-s-smith-b_3055270.jpg)
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