Best Self Contained Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You are the product of your own environment”

“Don"t gaze too hard at your belly button Or you will unexpectedly hit rock bottom!”

Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.”

Story Household City Self Contained Knew Cared Something Happening

Book:Underdog

Source: Underdog

“You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you." "Why not?" "He's a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows of your own." "Maybe he sees me as I really am because shadows don't deter him.”

Real Quiet Shadow See Self Contained Deter

Book:Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal

Source: Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal

“I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.”

Writing Book Self Adventure Reserved Many Friends Self Contained Misanthrope

Author:Ian Rankin

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stills Self Bigs Remember Memories Wind Reader Findings Our Family Theme Vivid Incidents Our Memories Saga Self Contained

Book:Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

“No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.”

Men Self Whole Unique Universal Independence Tendencies Manifestation Islands Dependent Entity Inward Wholeness Dependence Autonomy Assertive Antagonist Self Contained Janus

Author:Arthur Koestler

“You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.”

Self Lasts Behinds Wagons Self Contained

Author:Kenneth Williams

“Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not”

Ifs World Self Desire Deals Producers Consumers Distributors Self Contained

Author:Marcus Garvey

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.”

Self Interesting Groups Objects Mythology Celtic Artifacts Specialty Self Contained

Author:Michael Scott

“Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.”

“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.”

People Thinking Years Littles Self Together Lasts Political Song Half Five Written Periods Fit Decades Five Years Snapshots Self Contained

Author:Conor Oberst

“When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.”

Ifs Looks Two Self Jobs Careers Like You Flow Logic Bigger Stores Anchors Malls Self Contained

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all. But we live in a universe of Brahman, of Absolute Reality, self -contained Consciousness, where there's perfection, perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being. That perfection knows nothing about wrong and right, good and bad, happy and sad. It knows only itself as Perfection. And you are That.”

Knows Should Wells Heart Self Reality Remember Universe Imagination Perfect Mistake Consciousness Perfection Absolutes Bliss Good And Bad Unfolding Brahman Perfect Life Self Contained

Author:Robert Adams

“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”

Thinking I Can Self States Remember House Easy Space White Forget United Cities United States Circumstances Office Window Fortunate White House Self Contained

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.”

People Thinking Way Self Stage Complaining Obsessed Arrogant Synonym Self Contained Self Obsessed

Author:Bo Burnham

“To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas.”

Needs Stills Ideas Self Artist Choices Creative Records Seeing Advice Perspective Army Strategy Studios Producers Collaboration Throwing Friction Self Contained

Author:Tom Corson

“If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.”

Ifs Men Mankind Duty Independent Privilege Dependent Self Contained

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.”

Self Civilization Built Village Factories Nonviolence Self Contained

Book:Modern V. Ancient Civilization

Source: Modern V. Ancient Civilization

“A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.”

Self Country Home Culture Nonviolence Self Contained

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.”

Kind Self Moments Madness Cameras Phones Edited Self Contained

Author:Doc Brown

“With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.”

World Firsts Made Self Ready Becoming Working It Quotations Chairman Mao Deference Self Contained Chairman Mao

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.”

Humans Self Human Beings Compassion Features Melancholy Plato Exclusive Self Contained Regal

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.”

Ends Self Process Rooms Musician Sitting Instruments Self Contained

Author:Steven Price

“Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.”

Doe Art Self Reality Artist Values Universe Novel Creation Reader Art Is Perceive Judgement Tolerate Metaphysical Statues Symphony Commentary Aloof Self Contained Beckoning

Author:Leonard Peikoff

“A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.”

Should Mean Self Wealth Depends Honor Belonging Whim Self Contained

Author:Aristotle

“Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.”

Should Self Harmony Arguing Bass Self Contained

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.”

Self Mother Father Social Hours Memories Plant Silent Like Her Outgoing Self Contained

Author:John Malkovich

“When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.”

Ifs World Feels Self My Own Rooms Cameras Self Contained

Author:Patti Smith

“I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points in some real tangible sense, and that I had to make this a self-contained novel, in case I'm run over by a bus tomorrow or in case there's no demand for anyone to ever see a sequel. (Two things that I hope don't happen, incidentally.)”

Two Real Self Happens Running Pay Cases Novel Fashion Emotional Tomorrow Demand Two Things Addresses Plot Bus Convincing Tangible Sequels Lingering Self Contained

Author:Tod Goldberg

“You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it can be self contained, that it makes sense if you never hit the front page of it.”

Ifs Way Self Stories Might Fronts Design Pages Newspapers Make Sense Website Self Contained

Author:Khoi Vinh

“Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.”

Doe Self Home Guy Built Studios Jordan Self Contained Recording Studio

Author:John Petrucci

“If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.”

Ifs Thinking Made Self Problem Form Attention Issues Focus Failing Particular Currents Neglect Scope Self Contained Global Issues

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.”

Want Wells Self Units Collaborators Self Contained

Author:FKA twigs

“[Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he's a little more ironic from time to time. But as I say, that's just work in progress.”

Littles Made Self Film Wish Progress Comic Ironic Work In Progress Self Contained

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.”

People Ifs Self Character Shows Deals Worry Crazy Crime Episodes Units Personal Life Arcs Crazy People Self Contained

Author:Christopher Meloni

“God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.”

Self Eternal Satisfaction Self Contained

Author:Sivananda

“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

Moments Creating Present Moment Better Future Self Contained Good Future

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.”

People Want Self Home Opinion Products Involved Self Contained

Author:Jo Brand

“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”

Knows Should May Self Body Girl Boys Skills Unique Sacred Sexuality Concentration Cycles Pace Phases Entrances Rigor Self Contained

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”

“Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.”

Humans Made Self Individual Materials Draws Discovery Entity Individuation Self Contained

Book:Introduction to Sociology

Source: Introduction to Sociology

“One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.”

Self Would Be Universe Conditions Boundaries Destroyed Affected No Boundaries Self Contained

Book:The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Source: The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

“So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?”

Ifs Long Ends Self Science Religion Universe Edges Creator Boundaries No Boundaries Self Contained

Author:Stephen Hawking

“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Self Social Creation Duty Claims Independent Privilege Dependent Arrogant Brutes Insperational Self Contained

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.”

World Mean Self Self Contained

Book:Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.”

Humans Stills Self Human Beings Secret Company Cat Glad Relaxed Elegant Assured Possessing Secret Life Self Contained

Author:Pam Brown

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