Quotes About Self-awareness

The key: always assume you are the least intelligent person in the room. Always. Do this in every room, at every dinner, in every situation.

The only thing you have control over is your mindset, your habits, and the choices you make internally about how you're going to deal with a situation.

The outside world is a mirror of what you have on the inside. It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you.

In removing yourself temporarily from the situation, you reduce the supply of yourself. In basic economics, value is a function of supply and demand. When supply goes down, value goes up.

Often people want answers right now! When they tell you to jump, they want you to ask, "How high?" But you have the right to think things over. The right to delay. The right to say, "Okay, give me some time to see how I feel about it." The right to get to know the people who enter your life in either business or relationships and see if they are the right fit.

Remember to always tune your inner ear so you can listen for (and separate from each other) both the good reason and the real reason when anyone (including yourself) gives you an excuse.

And by the way, I know my title said "10 Reasons" and I only listed "6". I didn't learn to count in college.

I would sit snug in this giant couch inside this giant apartment in the dark thinking, "how stupid was I? I made money when it was easy and then I lost it all.

Nothing you ever thought of before amounted to anything – that's why you are exactly where you are at that moment of hitting bottom.

No man is a devil in his own mind.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

We don't know enough about ourselves. I think it's better to know that you don't know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that's why so many people are so lost.

And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

It doesn't do to look too hard into this mystery, which is as far from being simple as it is from being safe. We don't know enough about ourselves. I think it's better to know that you don't know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that's why so many people are so lost.

The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself.

You can't see yourself all over. But I can. Part of you is honey, part of you is copper, some of you is gold--