Quotes About Self-awareness

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.

When you're not authentic to yourself, you're lying. You're going to get found out and you're going to slip up.

I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to spend my time. Probably too much - I probably obsess over it. My friends think I do. But I feel like I kind of have to, because these days, it feels like little bits of my time kind of slip away from me, and when that happens, it feels like parts of my life are slipping away.

I can be a lazy slob.

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.

My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

People are thinking I am running so fast on the pitch, but I think it's slow.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

I'm obviously a lot slower than everybody.

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

I have to accept that my role is to gather the runs slowly. Kevin Pietersen is flamboyant, but that style doesn't work for me.

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance.

As captain you're involved immensely. You get worked up, you get carried away. It slowly dies down once you're a player. You realise you've to take the back seat.