Top 62 Self Demanding Quotes

#1. Living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.

George Sand

Self Demanding Quotes #6840
#2. She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.

Clarice Lispector

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#3. She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.

Kristen Heitzmann

Self Demanding Quotes #10148
#4. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

Michael J. Fox

Self Demanding Quotes #10399
#5. In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

Sam Kean

Self Demanding Quotes #12247
#6. There's the neurotic mother who's so demanding that the sound of her voice over the phone can cause instant nausea in her daughters.

Pat Conroy

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#7. How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.

J.I. Packer

Self Demanding Quotes #19317
#8. Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,

Meg Cabot

Self Demanding Quotes #22978
#9. A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.

Alice Dreger

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#10. The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.

Paula Heller Garland

Self Demanding Quotes #28841
#11. She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.
He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

Laura Kreitzer

Self Demanding Quotes #29227
#12. Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date?

Pepe Eliaschev

Self Demanding Quotes #30193
#13. Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.

George Osborne

Self Demanding Quotes #30896
#14. demanding what we want ignores the other person's sense of control and they will want to resist us.

Bob Bray

Self Demanding Quotes #32353
#15. There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

Dick Cavett

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#16. I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

Elizabeth Peters

Self Demanding Quotes #35327
#17. A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world

Janette Oke

Self Demanding Quotes #36026
#18. When a beauty hits you, you never complain! You just start demanding for stronger hits! Find a beauty and let it hit you! Find a spectacular rainbow amongst the clouds, find a river shining glamorously under the sun! Let it hit you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Self Demanding Quotes #36757
#19. The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

Carolina Herrera

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#20. I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

Lynne Reid Banks

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#21. Thus, an index built for vector space retrieval cannot, in general, be used for phrase queries. Moreover, there is no way of demanding a vector space score for a phrase query - we only know the relative weights of each term in a document.

Prabhakar Raghavan

Self Demanding Quotes #52252
#22. Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Brewster Kahle

Self Demanding Quotes #53841
#23. Children frighten me. I mean, I appreciate them on a cute aesthetic level, but they're very demanding and unreasonable creatures and often smell funny.

Rachel Cohn

Self Demanding Quotes #54431
#24. You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.

Mary Kay Ash

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#25. As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Randy West

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#26. All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

P. J. O'Rourke

Self Demanding Quotes #63100
#27. Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics.

Mark Steyn

Self Demanding Quotes #63303
#28. Asking questions, demanding explanations - these things always led to trouble

Jennifer Donnelly

Self Demanding Quotes #65701
#29. Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.

Sean Ferrer

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#30. It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.

Thierry Henry

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#31. I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.

Shirley Tallman

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#32. It seemed altogether right to him that they would drive through the small village of Paradise. It would be hard to find someone less demanding of life than Brown Dog and his current position was beyond his most strenuous ambitions.

Jim Harrison

Self Demanding Quotes #71931
#33. At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Carlos Fuentes

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#34. Customers are very demanding and well informed.

Stefano Gabbana

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#35. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.

Maureen Corrigan

Self Demanding Quotes #73532
#36. Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

George Bernard Shaw

Self Demanding Quotes #73654
#37. Have a vision. Be demanding.

Colin Powell

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#38. The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.

Star Trek The Next Generation

Self Demanding Quotes #75093
#39. I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

Billy Collins

Self Demanding Quotes #77453
#40. Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle.
It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.

Aisha Mirza

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#41. Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#42. In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.

Helmut Jahn

Self Demanding Quotes #97252
#43. It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.

Jerry A. Webman

Self Demanding Quotes #101241
#44. Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Karen Russell

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#45. I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party.

Esha Gupta

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#46. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.

Jo Goodman

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#47. It was not lost on Osama bin Laden that it only took 18 dead in Somalia for the Great Satan to pull out. It should not be lost on Americans that this is what the Democrats are again demanding we do in Iraq.

Ann Coulter

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#48. The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Jesse Helms

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#49. The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Ayn Rand

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#50. Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.

Pope Francis

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#51. According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

Robert P. George

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#52. To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Carroll Quigley

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#53. Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging

Tina J. Richardson

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#54. I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

Bill Murray

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#55. To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

Jane Addams

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#56. I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.

Jacques Sandulescu

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#57. A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#58. How can one know when he is stabilized in love? First, he is able to pour out his love upon others without demanding reciprocation. He can love without being loved. Second, he can meet recurrences of rejection with forgiveness. He will not react wrongly by anger, resentment or self-pity. Be

Frank Hammond

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#59. Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

Terry Goodkind

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#60. Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtues, not of vices.

Ayn Rand

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#61. The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

Royal Robbins

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#62. Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Debbie Ford

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