I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
~By Patty Duke ~
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 ~
I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
~By Michael Bolton ~
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
~By Edwin Arnold ~
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
~By Ernst Haas ~
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
~By Doris Kearns Goodwin ~
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
~By George Orwell ~
And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
~By John Mortimer ~
I made the character as much of myself as I could.
~By Gil Gerard ~
Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.
~By James Roosevelt ~
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
~By Paul Klee ~
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
~By May Sarton ~
I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad.
~By Hidetoshi Nakata ~
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
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 ~
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
~By Virgil Thomson ~
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
~By Cicely Tyson ~
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
~By Anthony Powell ~
But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
~By Jim Coleman ~
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
~By Mark Haddon ~
I don't like defining myself. I just am.
~By Britney Spears ~
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
~By Rick Yune ~
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
~By Colin Powell ~
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
~By George Weinberg ~
When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
~By Adrienne Barbeau ~
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
~By Albert Ellis ~
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
~By Venus Williams ~
I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.
~By Anthony Quinn ~
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
~By Claire Danes ~
What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
~By William James ~
I tricked myself into doing this movie.
~By Casey Affleck ~
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
~By Rebecca West ~
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
~By Michael Korda ~
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
~By Albert Camus ~
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.
~By Gregg Allman ~
Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.
~By Sandra Bullock ~
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.
~By Tim Holden ~
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
~By Walter Anderson ~
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
~By Ernie Banks ~
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
~By Logan Pearsall Smith ~
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
~By Philip Dunne ~
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
~By George Bentham ~
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
~By Danny Elfman ~
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
~By Albrecht Durer ~
If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.
~By Jonathan Brown ~
The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.
~By Dave Heineman ~
I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.
~By Judd Nelson ~
The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.
~By Helen Thomas ~
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
~By John W. Gardner ~
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
~By Plato ~
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
~By Diana Krall ~
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
~By Colin Powell ~
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
~By Jerry Lewis ~
And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.
~By Clay Aiken ~
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
~By John Barth ~
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
~By Quintilian ~
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
~By Max Stirner ~
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
~By Willie Mays ~
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