#elf

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it. ↗

— Phillip Phillips

#doing #get #i #know #myself

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#i #myself #radical #thinker

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#because #even #i #like #me

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#affected #any #applause #beautiful #beautiful person

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#happens #multiple #myself #now #other

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right? ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#does #every #everybody #i #i think

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#among #aware #becomes #cause #causes

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#child #during #earliest #familiar #himself

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#contact #external #external world #immediate #in other words

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#day #evolution #finds #itself #knowledge