Quotes About Self-awareness

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

How can you, as a small business owner, figure out what you are and, from there, begin to take action? Simple - you have to understand what part of the job you are doing and, if it isn't fulfilling the role of the entrepreneur in your business, you must make the decision to take on that role.

Lebanon is a small country, and we have a saying: as long as you know your size, you know, just try to protect what you have.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.

Even if it's just the smallest thing, like what label I go by, I think to find the truth and express it with full confidence.

It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

You know, to marry a man like Donald, you need to know who you are. You need to know who you are, and you need to be very strong and smart.

I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

I am not that smart.

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

I am not smarter than anyone else.