Quotes About Self-awareness

He has seen the glory of the Self

I'm very proud of 'Gavin and Stacey,' but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself a writer. Just because you do something once, it doesn't mean that's who you are. I played football last night; it doesn't mean I'm a footballer.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

It is very important to be humble but to maintain the conviction that we can do something good.

Even though the public may perceive me differently, I always feel like I'm learning something new, and I like seeing myself this way. It keeps me focused on doing things with the love and care that comes from knowing you can always improve. I always have that in my head.

We're lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren't working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it's time to try something new.

Everyone deals with sadness and lack of love when they're kids, and all this abandonment. Most people do. Hopefully you want to learn something new, and you want to move on to this other place, and I think, for me, it was like, I really didn't know how to calm myself down.

I do enjoy being in front of the camera and that is something new I have discovered.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Sometimes you've got to put your realistic glasses on and see who you are.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.

I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.

You can't avoid being an egotistical person and ultimately somewhat narcissistic. You can try to curb it by recognizing that behavior. But at the same time, your repetitive behavior has its own psychology, and it's impossible to get out of that.

If you look at who you were a year ago and aren't somewhat embarrassed, you're not growing as a person.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

One day I was in the movie world with its glamour and then when I looked at it realistically and realised my shelf life was over, I was out of it all, setting up office somewhere.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

I know how lazy I am. So if I have to go somewhere else I can't get to easily, I talk myself out of it.

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that.