Self Quotes - Page 458

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

If you're married to an entrenched non-apologizer, it won't help to doggedly demand one. Some folks lack the self-esteem required to take responsibility for their less than honorable behaviors, feel remorse, and offer a heartfelt apology. And many people are so hard on themselves for the mistakes they make, they don't have the emotional room to admit vulnerability and apologize to a partner.

Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

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In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me.