Quotes About Self-awareness

Don't look for excuses. The truth is that the older I get, the more I like my defects. Old age is the best moment to be and do whatever you enjoy. Soon no

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia.

Manda tu superego al carajo, hombre. Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

I have zero interest in being vice president.

My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

The most dangerous thing a Bachelor or Bachelorette can do is zero in on someone early and just shut everybody and everything else out emotionally.

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.

I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue.

Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you've tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.

I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

Toward the end of my career with WWE, I found myself in a comfort zone. Looking back at it now with a little more perspective, it was killing me.

Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

I guess my comfort zone as a writer is diametrically opposed to my comfort zone as a human being.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.