“Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.” PeopleFeelsLittlesSelfBitsKindnessInvolvedLittle BitLeaving Author:Cobie Smulders
“I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.” ThinkingLittlesSelfAbleFightingBitsWalksRecordsWillingPrideLittle BitSakeSelf Respect Author:Ryan Adams
“Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.” LittlesSelfMightCertainBitsIndustryLittle BitResearchLogicPrizeEvidentStraightforward Author:Michael Nesmith
“I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.” FirstsLittlesSelfBitsSituationCreativeWifeLittle BitWeaknessMelancholyLooking BackAssuredMeditatingSituations In Life Author:David Lynch
“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.” ThinkingFeelsKindLittlesSelfFacesTurnsBitsWorstLittle BitConsciousCamerasVulnerableVulnerabilitySelf Conscious Author:Jason Mraz
“I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.” LittlesSelfActorsBitsLittle BitConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Chris Lilley
“Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.” FeelsLittlesHas BeensSelfSometimesMomentsSpiritualBitsStepsTakenVictoryLittle BitDenialTriumphMaturityAccomplishmentLittle ThingsInwardFaithfulnessConquerorSmall StepsSpiritual MaturityDespondent Author:Amy Carmichael
“Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.” KnowsLittlesSelfBitsLittle BitImportancePatternsSelf-importance Author:John de Ruiter
“Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less.” WorldWritingTryingHumansKindLittlesRealSelfBitsCompassionOur LivesAwarenessLittle BitSelf AwarenessEmbraceProfoundGapsInvitesAnguishFlawedBoundlessPolishedSelf CompassionReal Human Author:Maria Popova
“There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensSelfPastBitsGrowingAwarenessLittle BitLosingEdgesDecadesTechnologicalOver The PastDelusional Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.” LittlesStillsSelfIndividualCausesBitsToo MuchAdviceConflictMarriedLittle BitPartners Author:Lights
“There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.” WantHumansLittlesSelfBitsGoneLittle BitStriveFlawsTranscendence Author:George Leonard
“There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesSelfOrderBitsCan DoLittle BitSickGet RealLoathingSelf Loathing Author:Rooney Mara
“I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.” ThinkingWayWellsLittlesPersonsSelfBitsLittle BitComplicatedDevotionOne WayServingMixturesTrue LifeSelf ServingComplicated Relationship Author:Lisa Kudrow
“First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.” FirstsWellsLittlesSelfGirlBitsBenefitsLittle BitCuriosityFoolishnessReap Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.” IfsThinkingWorldLittlesLongImportantSelfPlayWholeCharacterStoriesStrongBitsBlackResponsibilitySuccessfulLittle BitSmartOkayStatementsBeing SuccessfulBad ThingsPossessedBlack WomenSuper Woman Author:Megalyn Echikunwoke
“I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.” PeopleGivingLittlesSelfHelpingLightSongFeltBitsLosesConsciousnessStageAwarenessComfortableLittle BitStandingGive MeWineDrinkingBunchHelp MeAwkwardNever QuitSelf ConsciousnessCrutchesDrinking Wine Author:Matt Berninger
“I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsLittlesSelfSchoolEasyBitsPathDisciplineLittle BitHigh SchoolAdultsDeterminationDefinedSelf RelianceLooking GoodReliance Author:Neil Peart
“I run about four days per week and do some sort of hike or yoga/stretching on the other three. Kind of self-propelling my body and muscles forward in my own controlled chaos helps me find the ground a little bit easier on the daily.” KindLittlesSelfHelpingBodyRunningThreeBitsMy OwnFourWeekEasierLittle BitYogaChaosMusclesHelp MeControlledStretchingControlled Chaos Author:Madi Diaz
“Before M2, I really felt self-conscious about some of my choices, and I was slotted into a category. At Rolling Stone, I was the alternative chick, and that was just the way it was. That did break me open a little bit, and that was maybe its legacy. And it's a nice one.” WayLittlesSelfChoicesFeltBitsBreakNiceLittle BitConsciousStonesAlternativesLegacyCategoriesRollingSelf ConsciousChicksRolling Stones Author:Jancee Dunn
“When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to him (as he would to a hardened sinner) that he go and commit fornication or go and steal. He knows we do not want that and he does not set out to tell us something we do not want to hear; but he finds out that little bit of self-will or self-righteousness and through that, with the appearance of well doing, he will do us harm.” KnowsMenWantWellsLooksLittlesDoeSelfChristianDesireBitsSinLittle BitDevilAppearanceHarmStealingCommitSinnerOrthodoxRighteousnessSincerelyOrthodox ChristianHardenedSelf RighteousnessSelf WillUnintelligent Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
“In terms of talking about what our politics has become, it now seems as if Barack Obama is starting to stand outside of it a little bit and critique what our politics has become. And I think he sees himself as a useful critic that way saying that it's not only become dishonest, he said, but now we have a selective sorting of the facts and our politics has become self-defeating.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesSaidSelfFactsSeemsBitsTermTalkingLittle BitCriticsStartingBarackStanding OutCritiqueSelectiveSorting Author:Gloria Borger