#selves

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fashionable #imperative #into #join #madmen

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#compose #composition #down #every #every time

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

— Sebastian Vettel

#believing #car #kept #our #ourselves

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#adolescence #cool #create #dad #establish

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#championships #motivate #ones #themselves #want

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#get #hide #how #i #much

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#get #infuriating #me #mind #people

The guilty think all talk is of themselves. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#talk #themselves #think

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#decades #extends #few #gotten #journalists