French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The importance of your opinions dim in the light of their meaningful souls. This is how to love humanity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the… — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Copy Share Image
One thing leads to another. Self importance leads to self neglect. To think you're better than anyone else is the birth of… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Be truthful to yourself is more important than running around living a lie to make other satisfied — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Used to think nothing of myself then I realized I'm what I make myself but I liked it more when I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
God calls us not to be successful but to be significant. When we focus on Significance, success is often part of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion. — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we learn and who we become in the process of waiting is even more important than what were waiting for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is self-awareness so important? We need it for self growth. Otherwise, it's just self-flagellation. Self-awareness gives us an understanding of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
