Quotes About Self-awareness

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

You've got to make your mark. I just want some hank-panky. You never forget who you are sexy vs Skanky.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

I've recently learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

Who I am is a dad and a family guy. When I look in the mirror and talk to myself, that's what I want to reflect.

It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.

Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.

I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK.