For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.
It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
Light is constant, we just turn over in it.
To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.
What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.
There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome
I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right might not be right, so I live in constant self-doubt. I think that creates a kind of search that you have to have, and it prevents you from doing a lot of stuff that you would normally do.
You can't let other people dictate what your art is supposed to be. That's the opposite of art. You should constantly be challenging yourself to grow and change and create and evolve. I'm into that spirit of experimental and underground music. The constant, the groping, seeking, moving forward, regardless of where it might take you at that moment. It's all part of a larger arc.
The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.
life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -
The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America
Constant repetition carries conviction.
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.