#oneself

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#also #conceal #means #much #oneself

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. ↗

— Michael Novak

#know #oneself #utopia

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#hated #loved #make #more #oneself

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#getting #goals #good #hard #high

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ↗

— Helen Keller

#bicycle #brain #effort #gift #greatest

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooperation #ethics #oneself #origin #others

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable. ↗

— Julian Sands

#having #made #oneself #overseas #reported

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#cannot #copy #copying #enter #good

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #finds #found #know #most

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

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