Self Quotes - Page 341

We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.

People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

In fact, I lost my dad at a young age and had to put myself through school. I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self. But it certainly wasn't Donald Trump's doing.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.