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For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought


Søren Kierkegaard

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GEORGE SHEEHAN I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
TAMARA TUNIE I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be origin...
AALIYAH I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm ...
SIMONE BILES I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alo...
SIMONA PANOVA For so many of our clients in New York ? everybody this summer wore flat shoes... then all the sudde...
DONNA CYRUS I am always going to be true to myself.
PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
SAM CLAFLIN You achieve nothing wishing to be trained. If you want to get better, go get trained
SOTONYE ANGA If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I ...
ALEX NOBLE I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.
CHAD HUGO I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
SAMUEL BECKETT I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
EDGAR GUEST I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye
EDGAR GUEST I am always in doubt; I am never sure of myself.
AZZEDINE ALAIA I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minu...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the dema...
RICHARD GOUGH I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every ...
OKSANA RUS I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.
CLINT EASTWOOD The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind my...
BRUCE WILLIS I am true only as I see and understand myself deep within; I am what I am for myself and in myself, ...
JEAN AMéRY The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai...
SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.
MISTY COPELAND My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.
OPRAH WINFREY I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing...
IMOGENE COCA I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY I always thought I was going to be able to do some good things in this game, and I really feel like ...
MICHAEL YOUNG When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artis...
KELLY PRICE I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
ETHEL MERMAN I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
TERRY PRATCHETT I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
ADAM DRIVER It's nice to be able to do more and to always challenge myself.
EMERAUDE TOUBIA With the hurricanes here, this kind of training is important. People can be trained right here and w...
ART HATFIELD If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if...
RABBI HILLEL I like difficult old women, she said. I'm in training to be one myself.
ROSINA LIPPI I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was rai...
PATRICK KANE I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will...
JOSE PADILHA I need to be able to explain myself in context.
ADAM LAMBERT I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone be...
CLARA HUGHES I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for ...
DIRK BENEDICT Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.
CHRIS EVANS If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?
PIRKEI AVOT I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. GILBERT I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a be...
LUKE DONALD Lonely was never an option. I've always known how to dance with myself.
SUSIE L HILL I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I unde...
BENJAMIN BRATT But here in the struggle for fame and pelf / I want to be able to like myself. / I don't want to loo...
EDGAR A. GUEST And I always voted at my party's call, / And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afra...
TAMAR BRAXTON I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
MARILYN MONROE I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
YAMI GAUTAM I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... workin...
ALY RAISMAN I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance
RITA HAYWORTH What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like ...
TSUGUMI OHBA I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to d...
MIRANDA HART My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistak...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.
CASEY NEISTAT I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have manag...
JAMIE VARDY I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.
LEO KOTTKE The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, a...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric g...
LISA LOEB I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
MOLIERE I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I alw...
PAUL WALKER I had kind of high hopes for myself, but to do as well as I have, I've surprised myself, ... It's un...
KATE ZIEGLER I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
RAM SHRIRAM I thought I was going to win, and I did not win. There is always next year. I have more people suppo...
BEN GREENBERG If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, i...
MAX NORDAU I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perfo...
KANYE WEST I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
RAFAEL NADAL I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me,
RAFAEL NADAL My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremen...
NOEL COWARD I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e...
RORY MCCANN I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to ...
BEYONCE KNOWLES I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
GLORIA STEINEM I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowin...
SYLVIA PLATH I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an ...
BETTE DAVIS I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have...
KATHERINE JENKINS I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to underst...
HERTA MULLER I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would ...
DAVID RAKOFF I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people....
MEEK MILL I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE I'm a classically trained musician. Most of the time I'm playing solo classical guitar. It's really ...
DEREK WILLIAMS I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.
RITA MORENO I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interes...
KAREN ALLEN I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself whe...
DAVE BRUBECK Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's beca...
GWEN VERDON I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems...
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KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD A Swede quoting a Dane
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
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