Quotes with self-image

Quotes 721 till 740 of 806.

  • Ben Affleck What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Anita Brookner What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Epictetus What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Caroline Knapp What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Brian Tracy Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anne Lamott When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Tschumi When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Anita Desai When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Ben Okri When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Burning Spear When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jacob Boehme When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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