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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

    Author: A. C. Benson
   

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

    Author: A. E. van Vogt
   

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

    Author: Aaron Copland
   

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

    Author: Abdullah Ibrahim
   

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.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

    Author: Abraham Maslow
   

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

    Author: Abraham Maslow
   

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

    Author: Aesop
   

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

    Author: Agnes Repplier
   

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

    Author: Aimee Semple McPherson
   

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

    Author: Al Spalding
   

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

    Author: Alan Ladd
   

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

    Author: Alan Perlis
   

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

    Author: Alan Thicke
   

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

    Author: Alan Watts
   

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

    Author: Albert Bandura
   

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

    Author: Albert Pike
   

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

    Author: Aldous Huxley
   

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

    Author: Aldous Huxley
   

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

    Author: Aldous Huxley
   

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

    Author: Aldous Huxley
   

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

    Author: Aldrich Ames
   

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

    Author: Alexander Pope
   

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

    Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
   

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

    Author: Alfred North Whitehead
   

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

    Author: Alfred Stieglitz
   

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

    Author: Ali ibn Abi Talib
   

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

    Author: Alice Cooper
   

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

    Author: Alice Cooper
   

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

    Author: Alice S. Rossi
   

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

    Author: Alison Bechdel
   

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

    Author: Amir Butler
   

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

    Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
   

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

    Author: Anatole Broyard
   

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

    Author: Andre Maurois
   

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

    Author: Andrew Carnegie
   

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.

    Author: 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.

    Author: Andrew Cohen
   

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

    Author: Andrew McCarthy
   

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

    Author: Angelina Jolie
   

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

    Author: Angelina Jolie
   

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

    Author: Ani DiFranco
   

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

    Author: Anita Brookner
   

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.

    Author: Anita Desai
   

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

    Author: Ann Beattie
   

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.

    Author: Ann Coulter
   

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

    Author: Ann Oakley
   

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

    Author: Ann Oakley
   

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

    Author: Anne Bronte
   

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

    Author: Anne Tyler
   

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

    Author: Annie Dillard
   

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

    Author: Annie Dillard
   

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.

    Author: Anthony Doerr
   

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

    Author: Anthony Doerr
   

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

    Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
   

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

    Author: Anthony Powell
   

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

    Author: Anthony Trollope
   

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

    Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
   

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

    Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
   

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

    Author: Antoine Rivarol
   

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

    Author: Aristotle
   

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

    Author: Armstrong Williams
   

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

    Author: Arnold Bennett
   

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

    Author: Arsenio Hall
   

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

    Author: Arthur Ashe
   

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

    Author: Arthur Erickson
   

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

    Author: Arthur Erickson
   

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

    Author: Arthur Helps
   

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

    Author: Arthur Helps
   

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

    Author: Arthur Henderson
   

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

    Author: Arthur Keith
   

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

    Author: Arthur Miller
   

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

    Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
   

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

    Author: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
   

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

    Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
   

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

    Author: Ayn Rand
   

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

    Author: B. R. Ambedkar
    Topics: Life

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

    Author: Balthus
   

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

    Author: Barbara de Angelis
   

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

    Author: Barbara Sher
   

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

    Author: Barbara Walters
   

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

    Author: Barney Oliver
   

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

    Author: Barry Bonds
   

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

    Author: Barry Gibb
   

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

    Author: Baruch Spinoza
   

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

    Author: Bede Griffiths
   

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

    Author: Bede Griffiths
   

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

    Author: Bede Griffiths
   

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

    Author: Bell Hooks
   

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

    Author: Benazir Bhutto
   

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

    Author: Benjamin Franklin
   

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

    Author: Bernard Berenson
   

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

    Author: Berthold Auerbach
   

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

    Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej
   

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

    Author: Bill Lee
   

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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

    Author: A. C. Benson
   

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

    Author: A. J. Liebling
   

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

    Author: A. P. Herbert
   

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

    Author: A. P. Herbert
   

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

    Author: A. R. Ammons
   

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

    Author: A. R. Ammons
   

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

    Author: Aaron Allston
   

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

    Author: Aaron Copland
   

I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

    Author: Abbey Lincoln
   

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

    Author: Abel Ferrara
   

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

    Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
   

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

    Author: Abraham Maslow
   

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

    Author: Abraham Maslow
   

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

    Author: Abraham Maslow
   

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

    Author: Adam Arkin
   

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

    Author: Adam Baldwin
   

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

    Author: Adam Clayton
   

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

    Author: Adam Michnik
   

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

    Author: Adam Osborne
   

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

    Author: Adam Pascal
   

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

    Author: Adam Petty
   

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

    Author: Adam Savage
   

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

    Author: Adam Savage
   

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

    Author: Adam Savage
   

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

    Author: Adam Smith
   

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

    Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
   

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

    Author: Adolf Loos
   

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

    Author: Adolph Zukor
   

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

    Author: Adrian Belew
   

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

    Author: Adrian Lyne
   

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

    Author: Adrienne Barbeau
   

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

    Author: Agatha Christie
   

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

    Author: Agatha Christie
   

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

    Author: Agatha Christie
   

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

    Author: Agnes de Mille
   

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

    Author: Agnes Macphail
   

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

    Author: Agnes Macphail
   

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

    Author: Agnetha Faltskog
   

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

    Author: Agnetha Faltskog
   

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

    Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
   

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

    Author: Aida Turturro
   

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

    Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
   

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

    Author: Aimee Mann
   

I might not agree with myself in a year.

    Author: Aisha Tyler
   

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

    Author: Ajay Naidu
   

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

    Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
   

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

    Author: Akhenaton
   

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

    Author: Akhenaton
    Topics: Anger

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

    Author: Al Franken
   

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

The true success is the person who invented himself.

    Author: Al Goldstein
   

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

    Author: Al Jarreau
   

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

    Author: Al Lewis
   

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

    Author: Al Lopez
   

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

    Author: Al Roker
   

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

    Author: Al Sharpton
   

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

    Author: Al Stewart
   

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

    Author: Al Yankovic
   

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

    Author: Alain Robert
   

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

    Author: Alan Alda
   

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

    Author: Alan Alda
   

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

    Author: Alan Alda
   

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

    Author: Alan Alda
   

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

    Author: Alan Alda
   

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

    Author: Alan Cohen
   

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

    Author: Alan Cohen
   

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

    Author: Alan Cohen
   

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

    Author: Alan Cohen
   

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

    Author: Alan Davies
   

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

    Author: Alan Dean Foster
   

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

    Author: Alan Dershowitz
   

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

    Author: Alan Dundes
   

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

    Author: Alan K. Simpson
   

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