Quotes with self-analysis

Quotes 261 till 280 of 730.

  • Susan Sontag In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • Joseph Cannon In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
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  • Bernard M. Baruch In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Merton In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Myriam Miedzian In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Cate Blanchett Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Aaron Copland Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • John Sterling Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Brian Tracy Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Arthur Machen It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Renata Adler It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
    Renata Adler
    American author, journalist, and film (1937 - )
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