Self Quotes

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"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach… — Edward Weston
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be… — Edward Weston
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our… — Eric Hoffer
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable… — Edward Abbey
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is… — Merlin Olsen
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social… — Peter Singer
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise. — Napoleon Hill
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else. — Booker T. Washington
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi
The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you… — Brian Tracy
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for… — Magnus Carlsen
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the… — Garry Kasparov
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising… — Russell Lynes
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise… — Robin Winks
The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every… — David Goodstein
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a… — Loren Eiseley
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far… — Stephen Spender
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all… — David Lee Roth
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. — Mahatma Gandhi

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