Quotes About Self-awareness

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

Now, you may not have known this from my name, Lopez-Cantera, but I'm Jewish.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.

I was definitely aptly named.

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

A little narcissism is good. At least that's what I am telling myself.

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I love myself. I'm not saying this in a narcissistic way.

Compared to other people, I am not that narcissistic. Sometimes, I don't even plan all that I wear.

I don't think it's that difficult to distinguish between people with narcissistic disorders and people with high self-esteem.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

I know I'm not a good actor; I just don't have that natural ability to perform when someone narrates a scene. What I lack in talent I make up with my brain.

I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation.

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

I don't think confidence has ever really been one of those things that came naturally for me. If people thought I was confident, it was really just the way I masked my insecurity, because I didn't want people to really get to know the real me.