Quotes About Self-awareness

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to go before I'm really old.

Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.

Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They're so grounded.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

You never really know when you're going a hundred miles a minute what you're doing to your body.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

I don't mind not being cool.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

I've never massively minded not being cool.

What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.