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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….
I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.
It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.
We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.
Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.