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" Quotes and Sayings About self

I wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.

About Audience Changing Find
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
Wise Criticism Begins Self-criticism
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Ambitious Amuse Children Instruction
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Absolute Almost Art Axiom
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No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.

Free Man Liberties Discipline
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He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Steals Buys Need Himself
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Beautiful Behind Discover Example
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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Experience Democracy Infinite Turbulence
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Art Avoid Being Close
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Believe in yourself enough to honestly listen to the feedback of others.

Believe in yourself Listen Feedback Honestly
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The uncomfortable is a difficult place to be, but also provides a platform to grow if you allow yourself. It's VERY hard, but do your best to see the gain and growth thru the uncomfortable.

Place Uncomfortable Grow Platform
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Despondency Greatest Ignorance Pride
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Actions Alone Determined Exists
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Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self
Manners Reflect Sense Consideration
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The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned. Believe

Occasion Tradition Courtesy Hostess
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How we view ourselves is often not how we are perceived by others. Surround yourself with those who give honest (even uncomfortable) opinions on who you are to them.

Perceived Surround Opinions Uncomfortable
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Itself Reward Virtue
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Arising Highly Himself Man
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Any of us can find an excuse to be distracted, challenge yourself to come up with more excuses to be present.

Distracted Excuse Present Challenge yourself
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Accompanied Cause Idea Oneself
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Become Come Easily He
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Am Band Ben Big
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In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Almost Chosen Like Make
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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Had Myself Never Really
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

There's Always Part Your
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“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Regards Education Task Survival
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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“Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.”
Highly Yourself Estimate Takes
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“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.”
Goal Joy Peace Blessing
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When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Record Song Feel Somebody
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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Any Attention Before Church
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When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
Died Booked Studio Work
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In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

America Atmosphere Create Dependency
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To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Mistakes Stumble Commonplace Maturity
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To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Actually Different Different Parts Emotional
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

Enjoy Every Great Learned
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I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Always Am Assess Decision
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

Armageddon Could Electrical Energy
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

Around Brings Building Challenge
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I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Anything Entertainer I Love Just
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Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

Always BeYourself Impress People
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
Anybody Been Competitive Myself
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
Consider Figure Most Most Powerful
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Acting Choose Chosen Fortunate
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

Ambitious Anyone Arrogant Competition
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

Different Different Ways Emcee Good
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

Aggressive Better Better Life I Think
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Love Seeketh Please Build
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

Actual Attributes Demand Dracula
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Books Good Heavy Discipline
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