self-attribution Quotes

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.

He [Winston Churchill] refers to a defeat as a disaster as though it came from God, but to a victory as though it came from himself.

You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.

I am Pisces, with Aries on the ascent. I couldn't have done all I've done in my life if it hadn't been for Aries.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

The only reason the stock market is doing so well is because of me. I've always been very good with money.

I know I'm not supposed to talk about God and stuff, but my spiritual life is very strong, and I really feel that a big part of whatever success I'm having is due to that as well.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.

I've always thought I haven't ever had much of a lucky break.

I personally wouldn't be where I am without my faith. I know that for a fact.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

What I've been saying to people is that I write it.

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.