Best process & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.”

“A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.”

Self Moments Process Ability Deals Accepting Humility Buddhism Balance Discovery Who You Are Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.”

Inspirational Self Process Meditation Buddhism Personality Lifetime Layers Peeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.”

Inspirational Looks Self Light Able Process Sides Dark Acceptance Buddhism Involved Self Acceptance Enamored

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.”

People Ifs Inspirational Trying Self Process Buddhism Concepts Discovery Aids Self Discovery Contradictory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.”

Self Process Meditation Buddhism Ice Allowing Back Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.”

Stills Self Past Process Voice Buddhism Reincarnation Our Past Onions Past Life Peeling Peeling An Onion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.”

People Ifs Way Feels Writing Littles Self Process Nice Doors Comfortable Conscious Instruments Opening Piano Solitary Self Conscious Really Nice Your Favorite

Author:Marketa Irglova

“Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.”

Self Spiritual Found Process Natural Remains Limitation Unlimited Eliminating

Author:Lester Levenson

“This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.”

Self Process Buddhism Mindfulness Analysis Sifting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.”

Thinking Persons Self Easy Waiting Process Voice Answers Creative Special Conscious Right Thing Self Conscious Creative Person

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“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.”

Kind Self Process Views Emotion Consciousness Various Point Of View Reactions Psychological Expansion Emergencies

Author:Arthur Koestler

“What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.”

Self Force Process Common Miracle Sleeves Corrections Revision

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.”

Way Giving Two Self Facts Problem Law Process Friendship Strange Truth Is Overcoming Difficulty Handle Subtle Better Than You Strengthening Self Giving

Book:The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking

Source: The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking

“The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.”

Mind Different Self States Process Teacher Teaching Enlightened State Of Mind Lengthy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.”

Thinking Self Process Moral Progress Enlightenment Heavy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."”

Men Trying Mind Self Night Energy Process Seeing Influence Effects Being True Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of making a record, I'm supposed to fill that in. And sometimes it's a lot of stuff and I have to hector them about working on the material and that sort of thing. Sometimes you have an artist that's really fairly self-sufficient; they just need another ear to offer some objective criticism, but otherwise pretty much know what they're doing. It varies a lot.”

Knows Needs Self Sometimes Jobs Artist Stuff Process Records Materials Offers Criticism Ears Objectives Sufficient Filling Vary Self Sufficient Hector Filling In

Author:Todd Rundgren

“Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.”

Men Ends Self Process Moral Type Dresses Purity Self Respect Moral Purity

Author:Tad R. Callister

“Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.”

World Looks Self Facts Political Process Religious Behinds Foundation Disaster Satisfied Realising Arrogant Creeds Uneasy Dissolution

Author:John Buchan

“I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.”

Thinking I Can Self Helping Action Process Awareness Color Gratitude Down And Self Awareness Come Up Memoir Climbs

Author:Koren Zailckas

“We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.”

People Self Political Process Interest Politician Ethics Self Interest

Author:Barack Obama

“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.”

Humans Self Character Purpose Humanity Process Human Beings Childhood Terrible Injury Masculine Identical

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.”

Feels Firsts Self Process First Time Obsession Self Obsession

Author:Ben Harper

“The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves.”

Way Self Process Cases Successful Reflection Patient Behave Interpretation Self Reflection Completion Continuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.”

Soul Self Speak Process Practice Becoming Your Soul Accountability Examination Self-examination

Author:Caroline Myss

“To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.”

May Self Process Letting Go Extraordinary Oneself Motive Originality Involvement Facility Detached Ulterior Motive

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”

Giving Self Problem Names Process Levels Psychology Childhood Self Esteem Acceptance Giving Up Normal Seeking Esteem Lifts Approval True Self Components Kinship Perfectly Normal

Author:David Richo

“The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”

“...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”

“In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be.”

Kind May Self Waiting Process Buddhism Discovery Forgiving Patient Self Discovery Buddhist Be Kind Harsh Be Patient Etiquette Learn To Forgive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness”

Mean Self Process Focus Awareness Creation Discovery Eternity Self Discovery Mysticism Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.”

People Self Process Scientist Ongoing Correcting

Author:Kitty Ferguson

“The self is not a thing, but a process.”

Self Process

Book:The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Source: The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?”

Firsts Long Made Self Energy Process Growth Emotion Sea Creation Fit Madness Weather Useless Destroying Hollow Undisciplined Typhoons

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.”

“[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.”

Firsts Said Self Process Opinion Divine Salvation Stealing Curious Burglary

Book:Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity. It reminds one that there is always more where that came from and there is never any shortage of ideas or of the ability to create. The process of being pregnant and then of having the baby and getting up in the night only puts one more in touch with this fecund part of one's self.”

Doe Ideas Self Seems Night Process Ability Creativity Creative Baby Helpful Creative Process Pregnant Shortage Having A Baby Being Pregnant

Author:Fay Weldon

“the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.”

Self Process Building Oneself

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.”

Self Process Change Birth Authority Customs

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”

Writing Self Done Form Order Process Poet Work Done

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.”

Believe Self I Believe Process Understanding Emotional Foundation Self Confidence Confusion

Author:Brian Greene

“An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.”

Self Artist Process Creative Teaching Oneself Obsession Fragile Inquiry Quirky

Author:Teresita Fernandez

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.”

Needs Writing Stills Book Self Problem Running Joy Passion Process Quiet Anxiety Scared Stuck Holes Good Day Great Hope Self Will

Author:Sue Grafton

“Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).”

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Self Hard Process Interesting Building Credibility Trust Yourself Trustworthiness Self Trust Building Trust

Author:Stephen Covey

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