Quotes About Self-awareness

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

I got labeled as the guy who didn't coach and sat around and talked. I know what I do, so I don't worry about it.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I don't disown feminism, but I don't believe in such labels.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

I don't put labels on myself.

I don't use labels a lot.

I don't care about labels or anything.

I don't like labels.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I hate labels.

I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Codependency has a way of tearing at the very soul of a person; of a society too, I think.

And then I got to my feet and stumbled toward the door again. And got halfway there before I realized I was naked. Of course I am, I thought angrily, and went back to the bed for a sheet. God forbid I actually wake up dressed anymore.

I looked up, but had to crane my head back, leaving the features above me wrong-side up. The clear green eyes were the same, and, unfortunately, so was the spiky blond hair. It didn't look any better from this angle, I decided.

But . . . you still know the truth. You know you're faking it." "Yes, but eventually you realize something: the other side is, too. At least as often as not. Learn what you can; do what you can; get others to do for you what you can't. And fake it for all you're worth in the meantime." He

Was auch um mich herum geschah, nie hatte ich das Gefühl, irgend etwas davon hätte mit mir zu tun. Die ganze Zeit über hielt ich gewissermaßen den Atem an und wartete auf meinen Einsatz, wartete auf die entscheidenden Worte, die fallen mussten, damit ich hinter dem Vorhang hervor auf die Bühne treten und mitspielen konnte. Aber das Leben ging weiter und weiter, die Worte fielen nicht, und die Jahre sammelten sich an wie Dreck und Laub in einer Regenrinne.

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad. Which begs the question . . . how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad?

I've been young & dumb, and if I were never called out on it I would now be older and dumber.

He looked around, saw himself mirrored in that man walking back with his rifle. And suddenly, it seemed possible to him that we might love ourselves the most when we are suffering and seen to suffer. The pursuits of men seemed only the more shocking, if this were true.