“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.” LittlesSelfValuesAnimalLeaderModernConsciousImportanceConservativeFollowersSelf ConsciousBiting Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932 Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932
“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.” MeanBodyMotherValuesEatingConsciousNegativeTasksRefusePoisonUnconsciousDisorderDestroyingRescueTolerateResortsEating DisorderAllergicVomiting Author:Marion Woodman
“When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.” PeopleIfsWantShouldRealCareValuesConsciousVanityVainMeritDefects Book:An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian Source: An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian
“The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.” ProblemValuesGreaterPlansEconomicSeriousConflictStandardsConsciousAssumingRaisedAffairScalesPlanningDimensionsDiminishSimilarityStandards And Values Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.” SelfValuesReadingConsciousReviewsSelf Conscious Author:Mary Stuart Masterson
“The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.” PeopleRunningValuesCitiesLandConsciousDesperateBetter LifeSpoiledSuperstarOklahomaBratOklahoma City Author:Mick Cornett