Best concern & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.”

People Thinking World Years Believe Self Shows Reality Humanity Millions Fantasy Cutting Republican Concern Accounts Income Islands Grandmother Romney Bank Accounts Swiss Cayman Islands

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.”

Self Imagine Concern Blessed Prosperity This Life Afterlife Imagine That

Author:Marcus Borg

“Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.”

Wells Self Artist Goal Fine Discipline Concern Manifest Heroic Self Discipline Attending

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”

Self Concern Daily Life Sense Of Self

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist than men. Instead, and exactly like so many of their male countrymen, some women found ways of combining support for the national interest with a measure of self-promotion. By assisting the war effort, women demonstrated that their concerns were by no means confined to the domestic sphere. Under cover of a patriotism that was often genuine and profound, they carved out for themselves a real if precarious place in the public sphere.”

“Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.”

“In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.”

Way Self America United States Concern Masterpiece

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.”

People Mean Self Play Facts Stories Might Hero Concern Contrary Sanity Heroic Villain Eccentricity Swirls

Author:Teju Cole

“When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.”

Important Self Team Concern Mates Retiring Disrespectful Team Mate

Author:Fernando Torres

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

Thinking Humans Made Self Values Half Moral Rights Progress Century Losing Concern Sight Relation Human Rights Self Respect 20th Century Respecting Others Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.”

Self Social Community Memories Practice Modern Information Concern Obvious Available Traditional Orthodox Holocaust Preservation Continuity Self Preservation Membership

Author:Noah Feldman

“Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.”

Knows Trying Has Beens Two Self Today America Faces Choices Girl Sex Enjoy Term Issues Danger Late Majors Concern Relation Males Sexuality Intimate Fearful Adolescence Defining Sexually

Author:Mary Pipher

“Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.”

Source: Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.”

Humans Self Suffering Wish Human Beings Concern Profound Ill Torture Sickness Treatment Contempt Mistrust Desolation Wretchedness Indignity Ill Treatment

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”

Humans Ends Self Left Sex Sides Possibility Despair Expectations Concern Partners Borders Satisfying Requirements Human Relations Human Relationships Disillusion

Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

“To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!”

Knows Self Concern Thyself Know Thyself

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.”

People Self Names Rooms Hell Doors Blood Concern Tests Cancer Punishment Solitary Fever Insidious Erosion Blood Tests

Author:Martha Manning

“In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?”

Men Self Virtue Concern India Every Man

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that’s your first concern.”

Feels Firsts Ideas Self Reason Strong Concern Sorry Pity Reason Why Obsessed Grieving Display Self Pity Feel Sorry For You

Author:Joan Didion

“Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps”

People Self Use Attention Failing Concern Stress Self Efficacy Competencies Misgivings Mishaps

Author:Albert Bandura

“This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.”

Way Needs Firsts Heart Self Together Faces Spiritual Spirituality Challenges Courage Century Enlightenment Concern Twenties Yearning

Author:Andrew Cohen

“These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.”

Source: Vital Involvement in Old Age

“We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.”

Littles Self Reason Talent Becoming Concern No Reason Entitled Self Centered Brat Very Famous

Author:Laura Benanti

“The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.”

Thinking Should Self Past Moving Games Causes Understanding Greater Achievement Concern Satisfied Accomplishment Paradox Our Past Your Past

Author:Mark McCormack

“I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts. . . . In contrast, when discussing matters of concern to human lives - their own and others - people tend to defer to experts.”

People Humans Self Matter Sports Concern Self Confidence Human Life Experts Contrast Discussing

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.”

Self Concern Devotion Trough

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.”

Thinking Self Sometimes Interesting Concern Stomach Disturbance Interesting Life

Author:Cary Grant

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.”

Two Self Political Culture Millions Concern Independence Buddhist Eastern Provinces Tibetan Tibet Political Independence Tibetan Buddhist

Author:Dalai Lama

“Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.”

Doe Self Problem Today America Mistake Democracy Issues Essentials Approach Concern Bases American Democracy Global Issues

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.”

People Want Should Self Matter Play Seems Able Decision Concern Active Evident Making Decisions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.”

Thinking Self Government Concern Management Regulation Enthusiastic Neglected Anarchist Marxist Reconstruction Self-government Self Regulation Self Management

Author:Murray Bookchin

“If you want to find weapons of destruction, you can find them all over the place. Take, say, Israel. There is a very great concern right now about proliferation of nuclear weapons, as there should be. Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this?”

Ifs Want Should Self Couple Right Now Weapons Hundred Concern Destruction Threat Israel Defense Nuclear Reactions Chemicals Nuclear Weapons Self Defense Proliferation Biological Weapons

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”

“Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.”

“I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are. "Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.”

Heart Made Self Hands Suffering Interest Behinds Mystery Masters My Heart Concern Lips Genuine Servant Motive Locked Self Interest Loathing Soothing Loathe Facade Roosters Genuine Concern

Author:Aravind Adiga

“Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.”

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.”

“The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning gift that makes him king of all created things.' It is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the infinite. It is spirituality alone which really gives one the best in life.”

Men Giving Should Soul Self Spiritual Spirituality Consciousness Divine Development Kings Victory Highest Concern Infinite Supreme Communion Acquisition Spiritual Nature

Author:David O. McKay

“Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.”

Knows Ideas Self Desire Imagination Meditation Trouble Concepts Concern Absolutes Certainty Fearless Live By Disregard Indomitable Absolute Certainty

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.”

“Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.”

Trying Self Happens Secret Teach Impossible Happened Concern Being Afraid Whatever Happens Unafraid

Author:Vernon Howard

“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”

Men Art Self Moments Loses Consciousness Creativity Concern Impression Self Consciousness

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Made Self Shows Happens Attention Roles Successful Fashion Integrity Anxiety Concern Assuming Oneself Caught Things Happen Mask Usual Fearful Bent Pretence

Author:Seneca the Younger

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