I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
~By Ike Turner ~
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
~By Douglas Hofstadter ~
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
~By Lao Tzu ~
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.
~By Max von Sydow ~
That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.
~By Marcus Allen ~
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
~By Arthur Miller ~
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
~By Rick Danko ~
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
~By George Grosz ~
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
~By John Irving ~
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
~By Bert Williams ~
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
~By Tom Petty ~
When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
~By Naomi Judd ~
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.
~By Michael Chabon ~
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
~By Thomas Paine ~
I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
~By Moses Malone ~
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
~By John Galsworthy ~
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
~By Amy Adams ~
I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
~By Patrick McGoohan ~
No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
~By William James ~
I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.
~By Graham Nash ~
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
~By Jacques Delors ~
I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
~By John Mayall ~
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
~By Imran Khan ~
You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
~By Robert Half ~
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
~By Donald Trump ~
We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.
~By Lonnie Earl Johnson ~
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
~By Francesca da Rimini ~
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I've never taken myself too seriously.
~By Omar Epps ~
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
I have to stay true to myself.
~By Rob Corddry ~
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
~By Florence Kelley ~
The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
~By Stephanie Zimbalist ~
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
~By Natalie Wood ~
In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
~By Victoria Principal ~
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.
~By Derek Luke ~
Make sure you take the time to feed yourself with what your spirit has to offer.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.
~By Brian Celio ~
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
~By Colin Farrell ~
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
~By Patrick Campbell ~
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
~By Thomas Paine ~
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
~By Vanessa Marcil ~
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
~By Branch Rickey ~
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
~By David Ricardo ~
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
~By Plato ~
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
~By Wilt Chamberlain ~
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
~By Alice Miller ~
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
~By Carlo Collodi ~
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
~By Jack Bowman ~
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
~By Gene Mauch ~
The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
~By June Jordan ~
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
~By Rene Auberjonois ~
|