Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there… — Matthew Henson Copy Share Image
Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass… — Alicia Sixtos Copy Share Image
When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“I think that everyone should have at least a part of them that's self-invented; in fact, the world would be much more… — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The hardest and toughest thing to be in this life, of which your mind and outside opinions of others are continually waring… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama]… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two… — L. Brent Bozell III Copy Share Image
Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have… — T.I Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image