#elf

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#needless #pain #scary #self-awareness #subject

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#because #being #celebrity #constantly #great

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#detective #detective story #itself #new #new york

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#arises #directly #i #idleness #in my opinion

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ↗

— Sally Field

#eyes #judge #long #long time #me

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole. ↗

— Sally Field

#any #half #i #make #me

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. ↗

— John Ciardi

#constitution #damn #damn fool #every #fool

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#except #grown #himself #man #over

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. ↗

— Sally Field

#discovered #fate #getting #going #hands

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear