#ourself

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ↗

— Joe Davis

#highest #humble #retain #study #things

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#better #bigger #fit #gave #into

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. ↗

— David Eddings

#boss #christmas #day #every #every day

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#done #jokes #laugh #most #own

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#make #matter #matters #miserable #over

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#done #kindness #more #obliged #ready

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#avid #difficult #drive #faith #further

Helping others is like helping yourself. ↗

— Henry Flagler

#like #others #yourself