Best concerned & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.”

People Self Seems Missing Expression Concerned Individuality Pursue Sense Of Humor Self Expression Identification

Author:Walter Lippmann

“How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.”

Persons Doe Ideas Self Motivational Acting Team Position Humility Building Concerned Humble Contribution Manifest Good Ideas Recognizing Outdated Humble Person

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.”

People Self God Would Be Like You Concerned Assuming Pissed Off

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.”

People Made Different Self Film Creative Protect Concerned Judged Default

Author:Sharlto Copley

“I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.”

Thinking Children Self Seems Parent Differences Self Esteem Tough Concerned Assuming Western Esteem Behave Immigrants Fragility Psych Immigrant Parents

Author:Amy Chua

“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.”

“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?”

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”

Mind Mean Self Reason Use Form Individual Higher Discipline Fit Conscience Concerned Absence Rational Self Respect Phases Degrade Unfree

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.”

Ifs Men World Self States Consciousness Findings Concerned Complexes Objectives Our Time Abstraction Inner Self Preoccupation States Of Consciousness New Knowledge

Book:Writings on Art

Source: Writings on Art

“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.”

Thinking World Needs Self Seems Action Past Wealth Brain Events Identity Fame Ordinary Concerned Aspect Connections Speed Conquest Truest Sleepy Crippled Instantaneous Speed Of Light

Author:Eben Alexander

“Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.”

Self Action Certain Type Concerned Importance Welfare Sense Of Self Self-importance Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.”

Children Art Self Values Process Ability Creativity Expression Skills Creating Art Is Concerned Discovering Exploring Soar Self Expression

Author:MaryAnn F. Kohl

“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.”

Self Matter Passion Interest Involved Evidence Concerned Prejudice Witness Proportion Probability Self Interest Marvellous

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.”

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.”

Made Book Self Hands Purpose My Own Color Painting Concerned Thirds Originals Inward

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.”

Art Self Enough Moments Lost Cases Special Expression Materials Broken Concerned Connections Function Experiments Permanent Self Expression Special Moments

Author:Jane Heap

“Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.”

Way Feels Real Self Sometimes America Style Achievement Intellectual Built Concerned Criticism Appearance Ideology Concrete Sophisticated Superficial Bricks Academia Mortar Trivia

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.”

Said Self Force Results Accepting Meditation Buddhism Understood Discovery Concerned Green Self Discovery Dylan Meditating Fuse Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”

Two Self Character Ego Concerned Autobiography Ego And Soul

Author:W. H. Auden

“We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.”

Self Interest Pure Concerned Purity Stereotype

Author:Gloria Steinem

“My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.”

Self Painting Concerned Exploration

Author:Jose Parla

“Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.”

Love Persons Self Happiness Love Is Family Love You Self Love Concerned Valentine's Day Anniversary Happy Anniversary Marriage Anniversary Anniversary Love

Author:David Frost

“What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!”

Self Form Literature Imagination Concerned Dear Mistaken Anne Elliot Wild Imagination

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.”

Ifs Feels Children Ends Self Feelings Lasts Grief Concerned Revenge Intense My Children Fades Intense Feelings

Author:Galen Strawson

“I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.”

Feels Writing Self Identity Concerned Who We Are Self Identity

Author:Amy Tan

“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

“An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.”

“The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.”

“Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.”

World Needs Writing Ends Self Form Path Concerned Connections Response Mysterious Supposed To Be Breathing Interiors Veins Bleeding Preoccupation Uncontrollable True Things

Author:Andrea Barrett

“Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.”

Self Care Concerned Empty Selfish Self Care Vessel Empty Vessels

Author:Eleanor Brown

“We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”

Self States Passion Hell Serious Concerned Dignity Importance Envy Resentment Advancement Grievance Self-importance

Book:The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

“What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.”

Ifs Thinking Way Believe Self Difficult Changed Concerned And Love My Way Inner Self My Future Gloomy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is an automatic, unintentional form of behavior on the subpersonal level.”

Persons Self Action Form Levels Activity Behavior Majors Conscious Concerned Determined

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.”

Way Giving Wells Self Whole Life Is Easy Hell Giving Up Concerned Horrible Fulfilling Pointless Fulfilling Life

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.”

People Self Communication Concerned Righteous Preacher Self Righteous Communicators

Author:Sharon Gannon

“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.”

“Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.”

People Real Self Country Problem Individual Race Solutions Self Improvement Concerned Improvement Collectives

Author:Malcolm X

“The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.”

Self Interest Pure Concerned Wings Purity Stereotype Right Wing

Author:Gloria Steinem

“All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?”

Self Character Novel Empathy Concerned Imaginary Enigma

Author:Milan Kundera

“The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”

Self Hands Girl Left Decision Powerful Concerned Blind Visionaries Virgin Suicides

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.”

Feels Made Self Feelings Turns Concerned Dignity Prejudice Aliens Contempt Outsiders Inferiors Defects Hostility Mockery Brave New World Character Slighted

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”

“So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.”

“Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.”

Knows Firsts Heart Self Facts Problem Sin Attitude Struggle Victory Concerned Grieving Tolerate Offensive Victory Over Sin

Author:Jerry Bridges

“Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.”

People Ifs Men Self Black White Opinion Share Behavior Concerned Victim Patterns Characteristics White Man Behavior Patterns Self Opinion

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.”

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