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Quotes About Self-awareness

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.
~ Carol Channing
Recognize your wealth but realize your measurement
~ Carol Clarke
Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset.
~ Carol Dweck
you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What
~ Carol Dweck
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them.
~ Carol S. Dweck
In fact, studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.
~ Carol S. Dweck
The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that can be changed should be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others.
~ Carol S. Dweck
John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Howard Gardner, in his book Extraordinary Minds, concluded that exceptional individuals have "a special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses.
~ Carol S. Dweck
We can choose partner, make friends, hire people who make us feel faultless. But think about it – do you never want to grow? Next time you're tempted to surround yourself with worshippers, go to church.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A
~ Carol S. Dweck
John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them. When
~ Carol S. Dweck
you aren't a failure until you start to blame.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Howard Gardner, in his book "Extraordinary Minds", concluded that exceptional individuals have "a special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses." It's interesting that those with the growth mindset seem to have that talent.
~ Carol S. Dweck
work toward curing yourself of the need to blame. Move beyond thinking about fault and blame.
~ Carol S. Dweck
John Wooden, el legendario entrenador de baloncesto, dice que no eres un fracasado hasta que no empiezas a culpar
~ Carol S. Dweck
In my opinion, we chatted back and forth pleasantly through the hour-and-a-half journey, but at the end he said to me, "Thank you for telling me about yourself." It really hit me. He was the dream validator - handsome, intelligent, successful. And that's what I had used him for. I had shown no interest in him as a person, only in him as a mirror of my excellence. Luckily for me, what he mirrored back to me was a far more valuable lesson.
~ Carol S. Dweck
The Brainology program kind of made me change the way i work and study and practice for school work now that i know how my brain works and what happens when i learn.
~ Carol S. Dweck
No life, no matter how successful and exciting it might be, will make you happy if it is not really your life. And no life will make you miserable if it is genuinely your own.
~ Carol S. Pearson
Is the brain designed to make us flare in anger when we think we are being attacked? Fine—but most of us learn to count to ten and find alternatives to beating the other guy with a cudgel. An appreciation of how dissonance works, in ourselves and others, gives us some ways to override our wiring. And protect us from those who can't.
~ Carol Tavris
The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on its owner the comforting delusion that he or she does not have any. In a sense, dissonance theory is a theory of blind spots—of how and why people unintentionally blind themselves so that they fail to notice vital events and information that might make them question their behavior or their convictions.
~ Carol Tavris