Balance Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the…

— Cyril Connolly

However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards…

— Charles Duhigg

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly…

— Jared Padalecki

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become…

— Virginia Woolf

It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about…

— Gavin Rossdale

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued…

— Otto Rank

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many…

— Peter Weir

What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all…

— Esther Earl

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

— Ellen Goodman

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump…

— Alec Baldwin

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being…

— Denis Dutton