Ourselves Quotes

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.