Quotes About Self-awareness

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad. I just don't think of it.

Being undefined somewhat makes me nervous, but what I do know is I'm 100 percent confident in who Charlotte is.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

I never underestimate or overestimate anybody. Really we have to try and find levels of performance for ourselves first.

I never underestimated or overestimated myself. You should know where you stand. Moreover, you should have confi'dence in yourself because if you don't, what is the point of struggling? You don't know where you are headed!

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.

I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.