Quotes About Self-awareness

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

I always knew I was different than everyone else, and smarter.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don't need to be smarter than you are.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

I don't take myself too seriously. I never think I'm the smartest person in the room.

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

I always thought I could be brave and charge at things and smash 'em and walk away, but it takes courage to sit and look at things and say, 'This is what I am. How do I fix it? How do I live with it?'

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.

Sometimes it's nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.

Women do come up to me, and they tell me what they think! I've gotten great compliments on my eyes and my smile. But I don't see myself as sexy.

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'