Quotes with self-aware

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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bell Hooks It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Josh Billings It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Carter Burwell John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • David Harold Fink Know what you want. Become your real self.
    David Harold Fink
    American author
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  • Jan Van Ruysbroeck Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
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  • Kriyananda Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • John Adams Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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