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“After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.”

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Author:Cat Power

“I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.”

Thinking Way Kind Self Facts Kids Growing Up Growing Self Esteem Calling Comfortable Singers Esteem Cards

Author:Katey Sagal

“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.”

Ifs Kind Said Important Self School Education Opinion Millions Self Esteem Students Ignorance Ignorant Esteem Promoting Depriving

Author:Thomas Sowell

“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.”

Kind Has Beens Self Seems Fans Critical Larry Self Deprecating Jewish History Self Deprecation Self Deprecating Humor

Author:Peter Eisenman

“I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It’s a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.”

Way Kind Persons Self Able Balance Core Statements Rational Analysis Self Analysis

Author:Thornton Willis

“I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.”

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Author:Lauren Greenfield

“To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.”

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Author:Arthur Koestler

“Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.”

People Kind Ideas Real Self Hard Joy Artist Prayer Becoming Communicate Hard Times Righteousness Exclusive Self Righteousness Real Joy Smugness

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.”

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Author:Lou Reed

“But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.”

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Author:Gangaji

“It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.”

Kind May Littles Self Simple Discipline Be Kind Self Discipline

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.”

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Author:Sark

“I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.”

Kind Self Sophisticated Femininity Assured

Author:Jil Sander

“Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.”

Want Kind Self Today Audience Boring Self Indulgent

Author:Mark Morris

“In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.”

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Author:Pico Iyer

“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.”

Needs Kind Self Interest Rooms Wise Trust Concern Accounts Driven Genuine Operations Generous Cheating Bullying Exploitation Self Interest Concern For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.”

Kind Self Sacrifice Fronts Harm Bus Loved Ones Honorable Desirable Self Sacrifice

Book:Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.”

Kind Self Indifference

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

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Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.”

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Author:David Chipperfield

“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child

“I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.”

“It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.”

Way Kind Self Moments Hands Beautiful Wish Loses Wonder Findings Rose

Book:Poems of Richard Wilbur

Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur

“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.”

“Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.”

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Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.”

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Author:Bill Bryson

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.”

Believe Kind Doe Self School Learning Failing Easier Function Self Education

Book:Science Past, Science Future

Source: Science Past, Science Future

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