#self

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bad #becoming #being #ended #i

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#becomes #dignity #family #felt #forget

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

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#copy #dangerous #leads #more #oneself

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#liked #love #may #you #yourself

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance. ↗

— Robert Plant

#apologizing #financial #great #having #i

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

#best #defeat #defeats #each #first

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#ambitious #i #myself #never #plan

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#bill #bill gates #computing #direction #gates