Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts..
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, r….
Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions..
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-m….
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-….
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possib….
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Socie….
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select co….
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual obs….
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world..
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..
He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliat….
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical se….
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my p….
All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about ho….
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinic….
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation..
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminar….
For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I met and got to know better members of ….
The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, fe….
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm ….