Top 27 Creating Oneself Quotes
#2. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
#3. It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.
Derek R. Audette
#4. Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.
Mariah Nelson
#6. I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.
Garth Greenwell
#7. As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.
Alexandra York
#8. Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)
Rollo May
#9. Programs has a temporary results leading to nothingness, and the Gospel the brings the result of Eternal life.
Tommie Scott
#10. To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.
Edvard Grieg
#11. A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
Anni Albers
#13. While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#14. Perhaps once he had been a good clown. A noble clown. But he'd stolen Randall's chainsaw, and had to die.
Blake Crouch
#15. Men. < ... > They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.
Cindy Gerard
#16. The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
Peter Drucker
#17. The art of presenting oneself, he had once told Sybil, lies in creating an immediate shock which is countered by a slow retreat into custom. People never quite recover from my cravats, but they will never find the equal of my tailor. To be memorable is all, when it comes to dress.
Timothy Findley
#18. But there are some people, nevertheless - and I am one of them - who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. How its heart beats! How it struggles to get away! As we do, Paul. As we do. We think we know so much, but we really don't know any more than a rat in a trap - a
Stephen King
#20. ... For Weber ... autonomy resides not in the formulation of universal laws but in the value-creating activity unconstrained by any criteria - except in Weber's case, by the criterion of self-consistency.
Rogers Brubaker
#21. Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
John Templeton
#23. Made up, as one makes up the better part of life ... making oneself up; ... creating an exquisite amusement ...
Virginia Woolf
#24. Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.
M. Scott Peck
#25. My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.
Sheryl Crow
#26. Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
Phillip Lopate
#27. I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I want to spend my time learning what goes into a whole and happy life, then building that life the best I can.
Steve Goodier
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