If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.
I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.
I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.
Life should only be a competition between your new and old self, with the motive of creating a better you in the future.
The best gift that you could ever give to yourself is unconditional self-love. Life without it is an empty existence.
There is always a strong need for self-education during and after school education. Education is a never-ending process of intellectual growth.
