Words matter. These are the best Self-Inflicted Quotes from famous people such as James Carville, Amy Wax, Sylvester Stallone, Ron Fournier, Betty Boothroyd, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
I believe the conservatives need to push back against the ungrateful habit of blaming the West by pointing repeatedly to the self-inflicted wounds of the Third World.
I was on cruise control from ’85 to ’95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn’t directing. I wasn’t writing. That’s not who I am.
Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?
All pressure is self-inflicted. It’s what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed – the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
We’ve got to get back to old-fashioned politics that’s in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don’t need to make up so much drama now.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss – a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Taken as a whole, Europe’s share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge – and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.
To be honest, most of my troubles – bankruptcy, drinking, gambling – were self-inflicted.
We have to learn how to manage self-inflicted pressure.
Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
Pressure is self-inflicted.
