Best demand & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.”

Self Greater Awareness Solitude Demand Discovery Direct Self Discovery Living Alone

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”

“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”

Ifs Way Firsts Persons Long Self Effort Impossible Development Demand Tasks Importance Strive Intensity Self Knowledge Self Development Seriousness Trifles Old Ways

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.”

Humans Self Moments Reality Bears Demand Normal Essence Function Simplicity Witness Evident Hostile Fringe Brutality Reverie Human Psyche

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.”

Ifs Humans Self Order Justice Moral Demand Righteousness Constructs Precarious Self Righteousness Guillotine

Book:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

“Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.”

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

“Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.”

Should Looks Art Self Demand Art Is Accounts Mood Dependent Temporary Imperfection Our Love Subservient Positive Self Positive Self Image

Book:Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist

Source: Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

Self Age Individual Social Results Effort Situation Failing Pride Morality Demand Adjustment Individual Morality

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.”

People Way Self Spirit Enjoy Born Work Demand Determination Tasks Function Self Determination Entrepreneurial Mindless Dice Entrepreneurial Spirit Daily Tasks

Book:The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.”

Way Needs May Self Interest Answers Demand Benefits Disappointment Best Way Obsession Self Interest

Author:Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

“In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.”

Should Mind Art Self Enough Form Used Force Awareness Taught Pure Skills Demand Gains Protection Intense Martial Arts Aggression Defence Wanton Self Defence Personal Gain

Author:David Fontana

“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, - Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”

Self Moments Names Sex Bits Sleep Pleasure Pride Demand Vanity Demon Broads Autonomous Prowess Undefined

Author:J. V. Cunningham

“I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees.”

People Thinking Giving Self Government Jobs Spiritual Political Animal Levels Moral Demand Intellectual Historical Sake Supposed To Be Engaged Employee Self-government Political Animals

Author:Ted Nugent

“Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.”

Two Self Differences Memories Awareness Demand Self Improvement Contrary Improvement Pursuit Peculiar Introspection Identification Condemnation Idiosyncrasies Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.”

Self Interest Focus Demand Customers Planning All Time Self Interest Business Plan Business Planning

Author:Brian Tracy

“[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.”

Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection

“The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.”

Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

“Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.”

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"”

Needs Said Self Seems Values Knowledge Groups Fields Demand Isolated Evident Specialists Synthesis

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.”

Self Action Loses Demand Anger Self Control

Book:Zen in the Martial Arts

Source: Zen in the Martial Arts

“It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.”

“Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”

“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.”

Self Care Individual Attention Demand Formation

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.”

Self Helping Hands Values Culture Numbers Demand Stress Helping Others Self Centered Extending Adopting Value Systems

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.”

Self Mother Culture Demand Expectations Complicated Internals Being A Mother

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

“One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.”

Source: Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology

“No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and particularly self-discipline. The cost in comfort may be great. The sacrifice may be real. But this very demanding reality is the substance of which comes character and strength and nobility. Permissiveness never produced greatness. Integrity, loyalty, and strength are virtues whose sinews are developed through the struggles that go on within as we practice self-discipline under the demands of divinely spoken truth.”

“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.”

“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”

“... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.”

Self Individual Leadership Leader Moral Ought Morality Demand Respect Ethics Code Self Respect Conformity Ethics And Morals Code Of Ethics

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.”

Self Sacrifice Demand Payment Self Sacrifice Unspoken

Author:Mason Cooley

“A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.”

Men Life Self Strong Pleasure Pay Greater He Man Regret Conversation Demand Expectations Angry Enthusiasm Former Appetite Impatient Transient Disagreeable Creditors

Author:James Goldsmith

“To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.”

Mean Self Whole Individual Sacrifice Demand Ego Socialism Socialist Neighbour Refrain Commonwealth

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.”

Real Self God Demand Surrender Real Freedom

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.”

Self Demand Capable Precedence

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge”

Wells May Self Action Demand Tasks Self Knowledge Stem Efficacy Self Efficacy Misperception Incongruity

Author:Albert Bandura

“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.”

Inspirational Should Self Able Joy Universe Heaven Term Religious Hell Taste Demand Finals Consent Blackmail Loveless Veto Great Divorce

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.”

People Self Shows Eye Political Order Politics Plans Pride Demand Bills Structure Delight Envy Wit Desert Innocence His Eyes Good Times Scare Deceiving Detached Psychopath Grandiose

Author:Robert D. Hare

“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.”

“We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.”

Self Sometimes Natural Achieve Demand Destruction And Love Sake Wholeness Brokenness Radiance Fragility Old Self

Book:Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

“Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.”

Self Moments Sound Memories Risk Demand Bigger Safety True Self Curtains Ovens Timer

Author:Kirby Wright

“Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?”

Self Matter Happens Next Social Novel Hell Demand Not Interested Preservation Static Self Preservation Backdrop

Author:J. G. Ballard

“To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards”

Should Firsts Stills Self Hard Teach Teacher Discipline Demand Harder Oneself Pupils Vigorous

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.”

“Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.”

People World Want Giving Should Persons Self Values Realizing Situation Events Involved Easier Activity Demand Surrender Passing Passings Lasting Imperfect Fleeting Make You Happy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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