Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

One of the greatest things my therapist said to me ... and it really blew my mind in the greatest way, he just said, "Look in the mirror less."

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.

This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.