#oneself

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#deeper meaning #does #enough #got #i

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#day #fantasy #fun #go #happy

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#given #her #hero #his #life

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

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

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#hating #human #human beings #less #loving

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#better person #closer #discontent #divine #draw

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#entirely #exercise #good #good exercise #honest

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#being #content #deal #dream #dreams

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #exist #extend #go #human