669 Self Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. A. S. Byatt

You Fear Try Dreadful More Prevent Self Revealing

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. Adam Johnson

Character Change Dangerous Feelings Longing Think State Punished Hidden Entire Self Had True Spontaneity Revealing Were Personal Essential Human Human Actions Censored Whispering Acting Your Populace Actions Lest Growth Desire

Success is never going to come in the way your teenage self sees it. Aisling Bea

Success Teenage Way Sees Self Never Come Going Success Is Your

If I told my 16-year-old self that, at 34, I'd have no kids and not be in a movie in America, I wouldn't think I was still successful. Aisling Bea

Think Kids Self Still America Movie Successful

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance. Al Spalding

Reliance Gives Poise Self Boy Self-Reliance Baseball Growing

There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B. Alan Dundes

Group Other Self Identity Without

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. Alan Perlis

Education Thoughts Learning Discipline Critical Detail Self Students Attention Self-Critical Making Goes Modern Modern Education Grain Against Acquiring Teach Plans Organizing Fun Program

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. Alanis Morissette

Time Privacy Peace Mind Own Peace Of Mind Secrecy Liberating Pretty My Own Could Detriment Self Come Force Still Been Authentic Same Same Time Sustain Realized Then Transparent Moment Belief Actually

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous. Alex Tabarrok

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. Alexander McQueen

Fashion Heritage Drawing Constant Constant Flow Fearless Self Generating Thus New Ideas Bow New Ideas Commerce Confident Refuses Whilst Flow British

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is. Alice Cooper

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. Alice Walker

Time Nature World Organic Think Tree Blackberry Self Feel Particular Like Metaphor Pine Lot Just Being Experiences Happens Again Bush Producing Use Express Now

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most. Alicia Garza

Saying Best Me Care About Purpose Self Environment Most Closer Move Being Where Create Means Serve Things Need

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been. Allegra Huston

Character Me People Space Feeling Sense Other Seemed Self Outsider Supporting Also Occupied Comforted Dogged Been Familiar American Where Which Should England English Lives Right

It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self. Amanda de Cadenet

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded. Amber Benson

Me Sense Nice Think Gave Pretty Self Feel Like Mess Because Coming South Up Did Just Where Hollywood Really Your Grounded Lucky Base Grown Grown-Up Keeps

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised. Ameen Rihani

Character Little Things First Our Self Sure Reveal Real Truly Trumpet Traits Essential Real Self Which Little Themselves Things Pose

Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did. Amor Towles

Life Myself Family Me School Job Living Later Neighborhood Out Steady Boston Writer Self He Firm Over Like Practical Got Inevitably His Years Encouraged Get Did Same Graduate Graduate School Just Banker Suburban Worked Dad Hemingway Raise Imagined

Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself. Amy Cuddy

You Quality Yourself People Situation Other Others Relation Intoxicating Charisma See Able About Seems More Self Feel How Opposed Were Which Engage Less Presence

Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much? Andrew Garfield

Soul Ego Path Hype Lost Own Down Otherwise Earth Would Self He Been His Led Trump Donald Donald Trump Wandering Little Much Why Believes Serving Need

If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out. Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Broadway Out Would Freaked Self Knew Going Adaptation

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