“We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.” Has BeensSelfCultureWomenTasksHistoricalEnormousOur FamilyEngagedFemininePeeling Author:Anais Nin
“The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.” MenNeedsSelfHelpingIndividualStudentsCollegeTasksAim Author:George Horace Lorimer
“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.” SelfScienceFoundConsciousnessKnowledgeObjectsLimitsTasksScience And ReligionSelf ConsciousnessUnified Book:Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays Source: Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays
“Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.” WritingSelfNovelGreaterTasksRewardsExpectedHardestAutobiographyAnalyzing Author:Dick Francis
“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.” PeopleLifeRealSelfProblemTruthLife IsConsciousnessHealthyEgoDeterminationTasksOppositesUltimateOneselfInsightTricksObjectivesDevelopingOver ItCriticizeTendernessSubjectivePolicemenObjectivitySentimentalitySoftnessStoicClarifyingSeedlingsUprooting Author:Kenny Smith
“Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.” GivingHumansLittlesStillsSelfJobsStrongClassGenerationsDrugTasksWorking ClassRobotsLittle TimeCaloriesTime OffAmenitiesReproducing Author:Kim Stanley
“Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.” IfsMenWorldHumansI CanSelfEyeOpportunityLosesSecretMen And WomenTasksPhotographerEvery ManRevelationsUnconsciousMaskPrizeGesturesFleetingLiftingFractionsIntervalsGleam Book:Regarding Heroes Source: Regarding Heroes
“Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.” LoveLooksHeartSoulSelfMistakeConsciousnessDisciplinePromiseTasksBlameApprovalDiscouragedHeart And SoulDoing Your BestCourteous Author:Bernard Baruch
“As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.” SelfMovingCenturyDesignTasksUltimateFundamentalsBreathingIntimateTerritory21st CenturyInteriorsFurnitureElectronicsMakeovers Author:Rick Poynor