I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
I've read, like, 10,000 self-help books.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
It's an epidemic. Instead of socialising and having proper conversations, we're staring at pictures of models in bikinis and wondering how they look like that. It's like self-loathing.
I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.
I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.
I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.
I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.
