Best Personality Quotes for Self-Improvement - page 27

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.
 Timothy Leary
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
 Tullian Tchividjian
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
 Richard Saul Wurman
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
 Willem de Kooning
My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.
 Theophilus London
That attitude of arrogance, that attitude of "It's all about me. It's all about what I can get out of life now" - well, I'm personally driven by wanting to get out of my life the best I can achieve as a gift for those who come after me.
 Sylvia Earle
The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.
 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
 Brené Brown
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
 Wyndham Lewis
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
 Willem de Kooning
Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
 Bill Crawford
When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.
 Romany Malco
You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.
But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.
 Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
 Edvard Munch
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
 Tullian Tchividjian
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.
 Beatrice M. Hinkle