Approach Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Approach Frustration Perfect Self Self control
Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist. — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but thats not actually the case. — Edward Cullen Copy Share Image
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Self-control naturally leads to a sense of hopefulness and can help you overcome despair, helplessness, and other negative thoughts. — Nishus Copy Share Image
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
If you try to control everything, and then worry about the things you can't control, you are setting yourself up for a lifetime of… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
