Self Quotes

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor
Education Humanity Out Finer Something Self Real Educate Real Education Selflessness Links Which Far Us Should
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left. Naomi Watts
Funny Me Desperate Too Gave Took Everything Those Sexy Self Had True Trace Because True Self Gotten Truly Left Labels Intense Where Place Them Believed
My bread and butter is rom-com, and if I had to go back and tell my 15-year-old self watching 'When Harry Met Sally' that one day I would be writing a film in the same genre, I would have freaked out. Natasha Rothwell
Day Writing Met Back Harry One Day Out Tell Would Would-Be Freaked Self Had Genre Go Sally Same Bread Film Butter Watching
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience. Neil Diamond
Music Great Heart Sometimes Light Own Bit Inside Something My Own Drill Write Self Put Talent Come Audience Learnt Tap Up May Little Little Bit Painful Connect Deep
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. Neil LaBute
Best Me Best Friend Crosses Self He Until Protective Male Friend
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown. Nelly Furtado
Big Thinking Earrings Pants Hoop About Self Putting Baggy She Mall Going Downtown Her
I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence. Ngaio Marsh
Me Writing Own Everyday Find Disturbed About My Own Self Reticence Involuntary Most Withdrawn Concerned Return Always Been Closely Experiences Which Act
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self. Nicole Krauss
Life Man Memory First Lost Walks Sense About Self How His Room Create Novel Level Start Second Coherent
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self. Nikolai Berdyaev
Other Self Also
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful. Orla Brady
Myself Think Back Saw Bad Perceived Self Then Now Awful
When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence. Padmasree Warrior
Love Today Me Technology Confidence Women Passion Job First Took Only Only A Handful Driven Self Self-Confidence First Job Got Am Handful Times Going Where Among Kept
Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self. Paloma Elsesser
Beauty Self Most Authentic Authentic Self Being Means Your Expression
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. Patanjali
Failure Ignorance Suffering Pure Self Between Bliss Permanent Discriminate Impure
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls. Paul Bloom
Science Immaterial Tells Physical Purely Self Arises Souls Brain Modern Modern Science Us Conscious
The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight. Paul Guilfoyle
You Finding Something Self Come Real Overnight Authentic Authentic Self Going Rub
James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never thought I could be so funky! I mean, a white boy from Canada - a Jew - getting down with his funky bad self! Paul Shaffer
Music Time Thought White Down Lesson Every Every Time Favorite Bad Brown Absolute Could Self Never Like Him Boy Idol His Canada Getting James James Brown Mean Played Jew Funky
I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name. Paula Cole
Will Out Find Inside Self Name Always Am Real Still Trying Which Paula Who
Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice. Peggy Johnson
Own Took Once Able My Own More Voice Self Like Felt Off Authentic Authentic Self Just Really Career
There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know? Pema Chodron
You Fault Finding About Something Delicious Self Know Including
Sentimentality is a false sense of self. Pete Hamill
Sense Self False False Sense Sentimentality
If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!' Peter Capaldi
You Pride Meet Say Would Wear About Self Listen Your They Say
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. Peter Coyote
Enough Worship Worthy Self Vehicle Just
It isn't hard to see how the lack of representation affects the self esteem of many women world wide. Philomena Kwao
Women World See Self Self-Esteem How Affects Lack Representation Esteem Hard Many Wide
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise. Pico Iyer
Daily Experience Writing World Try Care Sense Believe Corners Otherwise Out Find Darker About My Self Through Self Never Stepping Most Mess Make Sort Sure How Train While Daily Experience Deeply
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit. Pierce Brosnan
Good Heart Humanity Sense Good Ones Spirit Self Generous Being Actor Innate
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. Piers Anthony
Book Internet Free Possible Cost Ongoing Writer Self Maintain Like Nominal Sale Survey Get Any Now Published Publishing
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