Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.

I think life would be a lot easier if people were able to stand in their mistakes and not backtrack. If you did something wrong, own it. Like, hold your own.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.

I'm not competitive at all, I just don't care. I have my own standards I want to meet, but it's a very, very low bar. Even then I struggle to meet those standards.

It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?

I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I'm standing out because I realize who I really am.

There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.

I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.