“We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.” StepsRolesSuccessfulAwarenessBuddhismCastsWho We AreOutgoing Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.” KnowsArtStillsMomentsBodyActingSuccessfulAwarenessLetting GoCraftsDeep Inside Author:Meryl Streep
“I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.” WorldHumansJobsHuman BeingsCommonSuccessfulBloodAwarenessPossibilitySucceedAnxietyUniqueCommitmentUltimateRegardLifetimeComplicatedGuidesHardestCommon SenseBeing SuccessfulSweatJoyousTactLove Wisdom Book:The new peoplemaking Source: The new peoplemaking
“Courage is grace under pressure.” InspirationalCourageSuccessfulGraceAwarenessPositiveArmyBraveryPressureNovelistsBoldnessUnder PressureGrace Under Pressure Author:Ernest Hemingway
“The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.” WayChildrenRealityIndividualSpaceSuccessfulGrowingPlansGroupsAwarenessIdentityEgoAccordSynthesisSpace TimeLife And TimeGrowing ChildrenGroup Identity Book:Identity and the Life Cycle Source: Identity and the Life Cycle
“I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.” MenSelfWould BeLife IsInterestingCareersSuccessfulAwarenessStrangeFemaleSelf AwarenessInsightContemporaryAcademicBiographiesUnbelievablePsychoanalysisReally InterestingProminentAndreaBookmarks Author:Laura Marling
“Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.” NeedsSelfOrderSuccessfulAwarenessSmartSelf AwarenessComplexesBeing SuccessfulOverrated Book:Earth Source: Earth
“You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.” KnowsFeelsShouldWritingLooksRealMatterFeelingsSuccessfulAwarenessProseRelaxSensationsExposureInadequacyGhastlyFeelings Of Inadequacy Author:Will Self