I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
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.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
It's impossible to live in peace with your inner-self without appointing integrity as the author of your daily decisions and actions.
Life is always waiting on your decisions and actions to drive it to a direction that fulfills your inner-self.
For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?
The only person that you should live your life competing against, is nobody else but your old self.
