Selfconsciousness Quotes

#1. The abilities distinctive of human beings are abilities of intellect and will. The relevant abilities of intellect are thought, imagination (the cogitative and creative imagination rather than the image-generating faculty), personal (experiential) and factual memory, reasoning and selfconsciousness.

P.M.S. Hacker

#2. there comes a point when holding on to your dreams becomes unhelpful and even unhealthy.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Hindsight sucked. In fact hindsight should be assassinated.

Samantha Young

#4. King-sized? It would take up all my space. I need wide-open spaces.
She glanced at Kane for help, but he was rolling around on a matress and moaning in a loud, orgasmic manner. She rolled her eyes and heaved a sigh.

Christine Feehan

#5. You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

Mary Mattingly

#6. When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

Steve Toltz

#7. Twitter is the people's tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

Ai Weiwei

#8. Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Virat Kohli

#9. My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.

Booker Little

#10. Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.

Timothy Keller

#11. Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.

Rebecca Solnit