“The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.”

— Ken Robinson

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

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UK writer 1950

Yukiru Sugisaki (1974) Manga artist

“When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

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Love, Lucy (1996)

“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry. If you can't think of anything else.”

Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 17–18

“You just can't get distracted easily. If you're having a bad day you just gotta keep going and you just can't be too hard on yourself.”

Sunisa Lee (2003) American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gold medalist

"Sunisa Lee reflects on recent success, while looking ahead to possible Olympic run" in MPR News (14 August 2021) https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/08/14/sunisa-lee-reflects-on-recent-success-while-looking-ahead-to-possible-olympic-run

“That's bullshit. You're being deliberately unpleasant. I suppose you can't help yourself, can you?”

Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician

To then Shadow minister for Health Nicola Roxon after a debate before the Nation Press Gallery, subsequently quoted in http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/abbotts-day-from-hell/2007/10/31/1193618926551.html "Abbotts Day From Hell", Sydney Morning Herald, October 31, 2007
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