Quotes with self-criticism

Quotes 661 till 680 of 783.

  • Madame Neckar To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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  • John Mason Brown To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Brene Brown To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Seward To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Alexander Pope True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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  • E. M. Forster Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Alexander Pope Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Leslie Fiedler Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Jesse Owens We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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