Self-Consciousness Quotes

27 quotes by 27 authors

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. — John Sterling
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene… — Gale Harold
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. — Bruno Bauer
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. — Gloria Naylor
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. — Jarvis Cocker
We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared. — Joshua Leonard
As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and… — Glen Hansard
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in… — Herbert Croly
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is… — Ari Graynor
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness… — Leonard Baskin
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing… — Annie Dillard
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of… — Tom Hanks
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. — Helen Hayes
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness.… — Tom Hiddleston
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity. — Charlie Kaufman
I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation… — Dylan Moran

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