Self Quotes - Page 425

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

To lead is to be yourself in a world of clones

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds?—

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.