Quotes with self-taught

Quotes 781 till 800 of 845.

  • Norman Vincent Peale When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Edward Teller When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
    Edward Teller
    American physicist (1908 - 2003)
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  • Bill Rancic When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Cass McCombs When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Confucius When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Lee Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ann Coulter Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bob Harper Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Bre Pettis While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Max Stirner 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.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt With self-discipline most anything is possible.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Vaclav Havel Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • George Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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