You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature.… — Borns Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
More than his exterior hit me. I felt warm and safe just being with him. He brought comfort after my terrible day.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin 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
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
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“If the outer mind hungers for status, money, and applause, the inner mind hungers for harmony and connection—those moments when self-consciousness fades… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
“One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble;… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
