#themselves

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#allow #america #believe #choose #get

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

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

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

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#archetypes #being #convinced #film #people

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#change #even #expect #foot #i

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#became #been #characters #child #either