Capacity Quote by Alison Bechdel Download Open image “It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!” — Alison Bechdel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Consciousness Philosophy of Mind Self Self consciousness Self destructive
When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions. — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
By nature, I'm a very self-destructive person, but all that happens is that I just get more successful every time I do it. Someday… — David Choe Copy Share Image
I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
