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" Quotes and Sayings About self

Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

Affirm Being Condemned Every
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To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Am Become Cook Good
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Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Composition Expression Life Offers you
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

An artist Prisoner
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A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Picture Possess Generate light Long time
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Influence Nature Able Walk firmly
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Derive happiness Good Illuminating Surrounds
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Know Believe God Essential thing
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

Work Art Significance Impose
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Astonishing Understanding Art
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Live War Heart Soul
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Cage Wild beast Law Selfish man
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Cultural Culture Goes Itself
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

All-Around Around Get He
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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Individual Lntegrity Need Old-Fashioned
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Did you know that what you say about yourself has greater impact on you than anything anybody else says about you?

About Impact Greater Else
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You need to constantly remind yourself that you're destined for greatness.
Destined Remind Need Yourself
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Busy Discouraged Faith Get
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Anything Done Else Everything
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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Else Everyday Everything Everything Else
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Never worry yourself when people neglect you. God is your ultimate source. He has promised to supply all your needs through His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!

Glory Riches Supply Source
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I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Anticipate Challenge Come Confidence
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How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

Comedy How I Love I Love Lucy
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I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Absolute Absolute Truth Always Book
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Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

Anything Anytime Apart Everybody
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I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.
Chicken Day Different Different Kinds
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Chief Concern Him Himself
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Bring Discovery Doing Enables
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Care Does How Itself
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

After Cannot Certain Itself
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Achieve Form I Wish Myself
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When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Humanity Love Satisfied Say
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

About Came Career Down
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I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.

Artists Been Came Down
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Admit Errors Intolerable More
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Accident Am Beethoven Birth
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If everyone can be as good as Madiba or Mother Theresa it could work. But people are not that nice. People act in their self interest.

Everyone Good People Nice
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If you are unemployed, get yourself an office. Why? So that you can get up in the morning and have a purpose to shower.
Unemployed Get Office Morning
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You can’t do everything yourself, you have to employ competent people. It is a trick to recognize good people.

Everything yourself Employ competent People
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Because Myself Piano Play
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Any Anyway Because Great
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The race most people have been tricked to run will always be void of fulfillment. We are part of nature and nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water, Trees don’t eat their own fruit & the sun doesn’t shine for itself. Living for each other is a rule.

The race Void Tricked Rivers
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

After Could Couple Folk
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friend Gift Give You
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There is no respect for others without humility in ones self.

No respect Others Humility Ones self
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I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

Always Anybody Anyone Days
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Nothing is truly impossible, have courage and take a risk in your yourself.

Truly impossible Courage Risk
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If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn’t recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself?

Friends Recommend Sister Father
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Take breaks, but equally importantly, know when to stop taking breaks. Don’t “self-care” yourself into complacency.

Take breaks Equally importantly Self care
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