To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.
Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.
I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
I'm trying to show people that they can activate their own passions and find their own path.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
