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“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

Trying Self Together Values Pieces Taught Passages Guitarist Self Taught

“My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.”

Self Mother Term Pieces Accepted Savages

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.”

Ifs Self Sometimes Hands Guy Three Actors Cases Pieces Directors Conscious Starting Impression Suits Auditions Self Conscious Pomposity

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.”

Self Goal Accepting Pieces Tree Identity Reaching Rooted Oaks Be Confident Oak Tree Reaching Goals

Book:Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

Source: Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

“I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Has Beens Self Artist Quality Gone Pieces Forgiven Could Have Been Defining Symphony Self Deprecation

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!”

Mean Self Dies Poor Pieces Fool Suicide Things To Do Heroism Slaughter Better Things To Do

Author:George Darley

“We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being...we are here to become more and more ourselves.”

Littles Different Self Pieces Strange Fit Add Eccentric Mosaics Small Pieces

Author:James Hollis

“Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it.”

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.”

“There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.”

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Author:Gene Stratton-Porter

“Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.”

Mind Self Fighting Water Natural Pieces Like You Discovery Warm Attraction Self Discovery Ice Can Not Melting Fatal Attraction

Author:Mooji

“That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.”

“If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.”

Ifs Self Pieces Scary Wire Misers Barbs

Author:Fred Phelps

“There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.”

Way Self Enough Turns Fall Individual Virtue Pieces Arms Empty Ultimate One Way Useless Breasts Pessimism Contempt Sole Recognizing Renunciation Insignificance Folding

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.”

Littles Doe Self Sometimes Lying Courses Lost Felt Pieces Jokes Tiny Unseen Unheard

Author:Carol Grace

“I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.”

“Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.”

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Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

“I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.”

Years Self Stories Wanted Past My Own Pieces Heard Couple I Realized Brands Isolation Teenage Over The Past Ohio Invisibility

Author:Travis Mathews

“I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.”

Ifs Self Done Desire Pieces Self Esteem Hair Encouragement Esteem Being Yourself Loved Ones Conform True Self Self Will

Author:Jami Floyd

“Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.”

“Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.”

Thinking Self Action Decision Results Leader Pieces Information Insecure Filters Self Centeredness Centeredness

Book:The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

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