- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once or twice, I've taken the Gideon Bible out of the drawer, opened it at random, and found myself stuck in the middle of a genealogical list. And that's when I thought: why not cherry-pick the best bits, passages that people can actually use?
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
- Getting Older
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.
- Nov 07, 2020