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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Charles Horton Cooley
Life Struggle Inordinate Record Self Passions Very Literature Social Largely Inner Inner Life
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Charles Horton Cooley
Travel Change Sense Self Environment Advantage Chief Get Often Working Away
Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Struggle Women Overcome Unlearn Men Girl Sense Think Harmful Ways Shame Adult Self Cater Reduce Conditioning Egos Social Themselves Much Bodies Many
When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom. Chris Fussell
Organization Collective First Sign Mentality Self Sure Sure Sign Self-Preservation Any Doom
My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. Chris Kattan
Me Made Before Down Think Needy Tell Laughs Seem Scattered More Self Know Calmed Friends Get Centered Which Hollow Inner Inner Self
I use Twitter to be my best self: fun, dateable. I don't get paranoid with Twitter, only in real life. I write so I feel comfortable, not speaking. Christine and the Queens
Life Best Real Life Twitter Paranoid Only Write Self Feel Comfortable Real Get Use Speaking Fun
I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self. Claudia Gray
Time Old Wish Every Baby Mind-Blowing Back Seven Tell Some Could Self Since Adventures Go Years Getting Leia Loved Level Chance
Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure. Colin Jost
Funny Time Learning Natural Pressure Relaxed Silent Self Studio Takes Like Cameras Lot Five Trying Duress Front Golf Your Play Play Golf
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! Courtney Love
Music Nothing Creation Kind Fact Self Thumb Like Indulgent Dumb In Fact Your Sucking
I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the confidence to love themselves wholeheartedly and to be their true, authentic self without any shame. Crystal Bowersox
Love Needs Confidence Think Other Others Sexuality Give Shame Self True Without Issue Authentic Authentic Self Than Any Anyone Public To Love Themselves Wholeheartedly
For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass. Cyrano de Bergerac
Natural World Salt Universe Preserves Other Sun Seed About Onion Self Mass Hotter Globe Parts Germ Than Heat Which Little Nourishes Thereof Apple
I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped. Dallas Roberts
Remember Parents Half Thinking Out Folding Faces Crowd Could Self Never Walking Get Front Just Stopped Little Used Applause
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. Dan Chaon
Together Memory Sense Our Ways Kind Fabric Some Construct Self Like Patch Fictions Novel
The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves. Dan Pena
Service Best Own Constantly Self Empower Answers Get Form Customer Customer Service Customers Themselves
I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self. Daniel Breaker
Life You Events Will Think Scared Self True Make Sort True Self Lot Want Your Show Elements
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present. Daniel Goldstein
Love Future Nice Way About Tendency Self Economists Talk Becomes Very Selves Different Psychologists Explain Preference Notion Nice Way Present Two
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself. Daniel Radcliffe
You Yourself People Become Sense See Self Identity How Fame Linked Damaging
It's supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self. Danielle Fishel
Work Day You Every Day Wonderful Just Be Every Insecurities Perfect Self Self-Conscious Come Supposed Just Should Your Fun
That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self. Daveed Diggs
Music You Add Meeting Top About Self Hip-Hop Coming Where Then Your Full
Individuality is a personal thing. It's based on your own personal feelings and expression of self. So, really, it's nobody's business to judge you but yourself. And if you feel that you're expressing yourself as an individual, and you feel confident in it, then that really should be all that matters. David Draiman
You Business Yourself Judge Feelings Matters Own Individual Self Individuality Feel Nobody Personal Confident Personal Thing Then Really Should Your Expressing Expression Based Thing
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will. David Hanson
Creative Smart Wake Up Will Free Free Will Someday Self Discerning Robots Wake Up May Human Maybe Human Beings Capable Really Fully Beings Conscious
The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed. David Hepworth
Privacy Changed About Self Human Being Note Being Human Notions Show Tech
If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth. David Oyelowo
History You Beginning Sense Think Self Feel Like Self-Esteem Messes Self-Worth Really Rooted Your Slavery
Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized. David Shields
Myself Quality Every Despise Worst Self He George George Bush Bush Realized
As you step into your limitless self, you might be confronted with old habits and patterns that are not necessarily based in truth. These old ways of being show up because you have repeated many of them thousands of times. Debbie Ford
Truth You Old Ways Thousands Habits Self Step Because Limitless Repeated Up Times Being Patterns Them Confronted Might Your Show Old Ways Many Based Necessarily
I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you. Deborah Eisenberg
Funny History You Indefinable Find Inside Physical Born Determine Rather Fact Divided Self Stuff Attributes Were Discrete Up Endlessly Where Place Interesting Much Your Moment Who Humans
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