#ourselves

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before. ↗

— Ron Wood

#better #every #gig #night #ourselves

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#determines #emerges #emotional #field #given

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#inflict #mental #never #nightmare #ourselves

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#coming #count #day #decades #die

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. ↗

— Clarence Day

#fact #first #grand #her #mastery

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. ↗

— James Dean

#express #great #great need #logical #logical way

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves. ↗

— Henry Timrod

#deep #demons #dreams #each #elves

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#believing #car #kept #our #ourselves

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them. ↗

— Patty Duke

#breathe #creative #interpret #into #life