4,826 Quotes About Self



  • Author C. Wright Mills
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    People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

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  • Author Cass McCombs
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    It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

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  • Author Charlie Munger
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    If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

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  • Author Charlie Munger
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    To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow's business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work.

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  • Author Christopher Marlowe
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    Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

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  • Author Christopher Moore
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    Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

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  • Author Cleo Moore
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    Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

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