Themselves Quotes

• I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Wish

• Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Need
  • Themselves

• If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

  

  Wilbert Rideau
  • Different
  • Judge
  • Ballgames

• It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Themselves

• Great minds think for themselves.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Think
  • Themselves
  • Great Minds

• Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • People
  • Beatitude
  • Anchorites

• In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

  

  Michael Jai White
  • Reality
  • Certain
  • Agenda

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Purpose
  • Always
  • Progress

• 80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • Feel
  • Problems
  • Peoples

• The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Keep
  • Secrets
  • Themselves

• I'm told by our internal surveys that we take of customers - by customers themselves directly and by a very large group of our employees - that there's a new spirit at United.

  

  Oscar Munoz
  • Customers
  • Employees
  • Internal

• Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you've got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

  

  Deena Kastor
  • Smart
  • Enthusiasm
  • Excel

• The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Reformers
  • Commence

• There was a lot of times when I was busking there were a lot of people in your face, like 'More, more! Go again, again, again!'... People were so used to be able to swipe to see something different to entertain themselves that the patience had diminished.

  

  Tones and I
  • Different
  • Patience
  • Face

• A matter which would be easily accomplished, as the best men of that State have already offered themselves to me.

  

  Cesare Borgia
  • Men
  • State
  • Accomplished

• Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

  

  Reggie Watts
  • Science
  • Understanding
  • Figure

• Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • People
  • Know
  • Themselves

• It's the one thing that the Devils have always prided themselves on. That comes from recruiting. We try and pick out the players who not only have the on-ice skills, but the off-ice skills too. I think in any job, if you have good people and you work together, you work better.

  

  Gerad Adams
  • Job
  • Together
  • Better

• People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Strange
  • Attitudes
  • Careless

• I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

  

  Adam Dunn
  • Fool
  • Themselves
  • Realist

• A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Themselves
  • Burned
  • Candles

• The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Person
  • Themselves

• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  

  Michael Frayn
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Best

• Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves.

  

  Arnold Lobel
  • Satisfaction
  • Please
  • Themselves

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