#ourselves

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. ↗

— David Duchovny

#different people #every #game #games #go

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#example #expense #known #ourselves #prior

We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do? ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#client #constantly #great #just #more

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #constant #deeper #evasion #feelings

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. ↗

— George Foreman

#called #houston #i #kid #last

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #farther #gone #got #influence

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#defense #dignity #efforts #feeling #hatred

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ↗

— Alice Walker

#how #know #me #mothers #must

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#became #began #caricature #find #heat

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#control #created #order #organizations #ourselves