Self Quotes - Page 364

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.