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Anthony Giddens has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of…
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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see…
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Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…
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The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of…
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…
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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
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In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind…
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'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and…
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small…
— Mencius
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and…
— Philippe Halsman
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As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments…
— John Updike
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and…
— Anthony Giddens
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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