When a culture is not mythologically instructed, not instructed in story that gives us a call, then we start looking for quasi-stories, little toxic ….
There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And….
I don't think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the ind….
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody ….
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around..
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged….
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-s….
What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith an….
A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in….
Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in ….
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth..
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right o….
At some point you have to own up to how great you are, how beautiful you are, to how much inner dignity and potential you have. Drop complaining ….
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the ….
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes ….
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. T….
When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of the….
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it ….
To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is bes….
To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desi….
In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is ….