Quotes of: Authentic-self Keyword

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

Julian Baggini

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Warren Farrell

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Denis Dutton

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mark Baldwin

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

John Updike

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

Michael Morpurgo

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Norman Lindsay

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

Pierce Brosnan

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

1984

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

2312

Question for your life: If Socrates had a clone, would he advise that clone to know thy self, or to know myself, with myself in this case being himself?

$3.33

The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don’t stop!

44 Days of Leadership

Do not allow the voice of self doubt and fear to play louder than voice that helped create the ambition in the first place.

Ambitions of the deprived

Because you believed In yourself Your tiny self Because you knew There is no greater accomplishment Than making someone love you

Audacious

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

The Angel Experiment

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.

The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The Active Side of Infinity

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

Attempting Normal

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Hamlet