I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.
I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.
The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.
Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'
Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight.
If I can accomplish anything in the next however-many years, it is this: To help a generation realize, or to think of themselves, not just as consumers but also creators.
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.
I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.
Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.
