Quotes About Self-awareness

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am.

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

I am an animated and flamboyant person. But it is being mistaken as brashness. So now I am trying to be more dignified.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

We all make mistakes. God knows I've made more than anyone else I know.

I want to become better, I don't want to let my mistakes define me.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

I have made a lot of mistakes.

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

All my mistakes, all my accomplishments, the good things I've done, the bad I've done, and the mistakes I've learned from, the mistakes I've never done before - all of that made me into what I am now.

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

People say money changes people. So does ego and so does social media. And so does the press. I think that all of that mixed in between - you really gotta keep yourself grounded.

I've always felt mixed race. Or as my music teacher said during a lesson: 'You are a mulatto.' I always felt there were white people, black, and then people like me in the middle.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

I'm not really a role model; just don't do what I do.

I don't model myself on just one person because I don't think that's healthy.

I am not a role model for anyone.