“There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.” SelfEnoughHappensMovingFiguresPeriodsAccomplishCuresOver ItGet OverKeep MovingLoathingSelf Loathing Author:Conan O'Brien
“Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.” IfsKindSelfOpinionCreativeTypeDependsPeriodsMajorsBasesAbsolutesFoundationSpeciesFolksToneWorking ItTwelveMinorsEvidentPeasantsUnthinkableCreative WorkFolk Music Author:Bela Bartok
“As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.” KindMaySelfHelpingStoriesTodayTurnsSacrificeExpressionPeriodsBenefitsIdealsOptimismHumanismStrikesToleranceImpulseCharacteristicsCynicalNeverthelessTechnologicalOld FashionedSelf SacrificeOutputGod HelpQuaintGod Help UsMarvel Comics Author:Michael Chabon
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.” ThinkingKnowsMenBelieveLooksLongSelfGovernmentLawPoliticalIndividualForceNaturalLibertyPovertyCrimeDevelopmentPeriodsExerciseElementsFlowVoteFundamentalsMiseryCampaignsConfusionReliefAnarchismAnarchistBeggingNatural LawPolitical CampaignPersonal LibertyChanges In SocietyNatural Elements Author:Lucy Parsons
“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.” IfsKnowsTryingSelfOrderWonderfulPeriodsHighestAbusePastorPerfectionism Author:Ashley Judd
“Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.” PeopleThinkingYearsLittlesSelfTogetherLastsPoliticalSongHalfFiveWrittenPeriodsFitDecadesFive YearsSnapshotsSelf Contained Author:Conor Oberst
“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.” MayArtSelfMomentsLyingArtistHealingCreativeExpressionPeriodsSolitudeEncountersMe AloneSelf ExpressionAlone TimeUpkeepRecharging Author:Julia Cameron
“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.” IfsKnowsTryingSelfTogetherRealizingAnswersResultsEffortParticularPoetPeriodsPurePagesMarkFinalsGenuineStatementsGiantsHistorianBootsSooner Or LaterInadequateDissatisfactionConsecutive Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.” KnowsWorldSelfPeriodsTradeTerroristIntenseNovelistsExaminationLoathingSelf LoathingTerrorist AttacksWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSelf-examination Author:Jay McInerney
“Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.” MeanSelfMatterPerfectLove IsLevelsSituationKeysPersonalityPeriodsCapableOrdinaryIllusionCapacityNo Matter WhatCommittedAppearanceDeeperAttractiveWorldlyVeilsEnchantedLiving Right Author:Marianne Williamson
“That is an incredible period I think when you have a near-death experience. You are really understanding that there is a greater self than the physical body, and the cosmic anatomy as I call it is suspended and physical, is almost attached to it but not quite, and you're living in that in-between sphere of apparent reality around you and then the real reality of the infiniteness of it all.” ThinkingRealSelfBodyRealityUnderstandingGreaterPeriodsIncrediblesSpheresCosmicAnatomySuspendedPhysical BodyNear DeathNear Death Experience Author:Maya Tiwari
“In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or . . . art or self-expression.” ArtSelfDoneNationsRaceGroupsExpressionPeriodsPatriotSelf Expression Author:Alice Dunbar Nelson
“Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.” LongWarSelfPeriodsPreparationRecessionsPerpetuating Author:Paul Johnson
“The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.” SelfMomentsUniverseCommonMankindAdventurePeriodsScientistFundamentalsDetailsBelieverSatisfiedCommon SenseCuriousDelusionCherishNoveltySkepticDogmaticPhilosophicFinalityDogmatism Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term.” LongSelfDoneTermPeriodsDecadesSignificantLong TermModeratesShort TermOccasionalVariability Author:John H. Sununu
“I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my mind to it. I saw me bring myself from 137 pounds to 175 pounds over a seven-year period. That alone said to me that all you have to do is really stick with something, and you can accomplish anything you want. It's brought me great self-esteem because I know I did it. I changed me.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantYearsMindSaidI CanSelfCan DoSawsSelf EsteemChangedPeriodsTrainingWeightSticksSevenAccomplishEsteemPoundsSeven YearsAnything In LifeWeight TrainingGreat Self Esteem Author:Aaron Tippin
“When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.” ThinkingFirstsSelfTurnsForeverDoubtHappenedMonthsPeriodsEightThings HappenWorriedDestructiveImpotenceSelf Destructive Author:Rod Serling
“Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.” LooksSelfDreamGirlCoursesSexBoysPeriodsInternalsExplorationPregnancyWetSelf KnowledgeUnwantedEjaculationWet DreamsUnwanted Pregnancy Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.” ThinkingSelfWholeNamesInterestWhiteCareersProductsPeriodsDegreesGenerousProjectionOrganizational Author:Ella Baker
“The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.” ThinkingYearsDoeSelfMomentsRememberLeftHurtAnswersCollegePeriodsHospitalsEpisodesIt HurtsLive In The MomentEvaluation Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.” YearsSelfSongCareersWorstPeriodsBandIncludingBobPortraitsDylanGemsSelf Portrait Author:Bob Dylan
“As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.” LooksPersonsSelfPeriodsActiveSelf Absorbed Author:George W. Bush
“You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.” WantYearsStillsI CanSelfJobsNightSongNiceWonderfulParticularPeriodsPicksExtrasWonderful ThingsResonanceOld Self Author:Bruce Springsteen