Quotations
Names:
Will Self
Quotes:
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
View quotes by Ralph Ellison
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
View quotes by Peter F Drucker
Self destructiveness is given a really bad rap. It can mean self-reflection, poetic sensibility, empathy, hedonism and libertarianism.
View quotes by Courtney Love
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
View quotes by Barbara De Angelis
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F Schumacher
On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.
View quotes by Britney Spears
Law is a reflection and a source of prejudice. It both enforces and suggests forms of bias
View quotes by Diane B Schulder
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
View quotes by Thomas Paine
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
View quotes by Jean Paul Richter
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
View quotes by Thomas Merton
They only babble who practise not reflection.
View quotes by Edward Young
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
View quotes by James Thomson
However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
View quotes by Marcel Marceau
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
View quotes by John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
View quotes by John Locke
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