This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.
This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Self Improvement is Masturbation.
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.
Loyal Opposition is back to her old self. I thought she might be a little tired since we were racing her back in just five days after her big win, but she couldn't have been stronger.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
A little disrespect is not a bad thing. Skepticism is essential to chasten what Walt Whitman called 'the never-ending audacity of elected persons.' But, carried too far, ridicule of the people we choose to govern us may undermine self government itself.
One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.
She's playing nonstop now. Her energy is great she's eating and sleeping well. She's back to her normal self.
I've seen him far more tense. Whenever he has a formal press conference in the East Room or something, he's terrible. I mean, he's really tense and nervous. I thought he was relatively relaxed -- after that confrontation with Helen Thomas in which he let his real self show, that is, the self that many of his advisers see in private. Laughs He's known to have quite a temper and to cut people off when he disagrees.
O, that you were your self!
Don Brash must end the speculation over his leadership before it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
I fought for them for 3 or 4 years. I fought for them, but they wouldn't fight for their own self.
A person's professional and personal identity is linked to what they do for a living. With that sense of self diminished, the unemployed person has the added stress of wondering how to make ends meet financially, especially if they have a family to support.
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day... every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.
The truth of the Self cannot come through one who has not realized that he is the Self. The intellect cannot reveal the Self, beyond its duality of subject and object. They who see themselves in all and all in them help others through spiritual osmosis to realize the Self themselves. This awakening you have known comes not through logic and scholarship, but from close association with a realized teacher.
Criticism is an attack upon your very self. The effects can be profound.
From fear in every guise, From sloth, from love of self, By war's great sacrifice The world redeems itself.
One who finds happiness with the Self, who rejoices the Self within, and who is illuminated by the Self-knowledge such a yogi attains supreme nirvana.
The saddest are those not right in their liveswho are acting to make things right for othersthey act only from the self --and that self will never be rightno luck, no help, no wisdom.
I speak of honoryour honor to Godyour honor to countryyour honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.
I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self.
I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and laughter.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Those who meet the True Lord are not separated again they come to dwell in the home of the self deep within.
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
As the inner vision is awakened, one comes to know one's own home, deep within the self.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.
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