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Quotes About Self-awareness

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
~ Daryl Hall
I kinda always felt like I am out, for all intents and purposes. So I always came from the standpoint of, 'Why does writing it in an article or saying it in an article make me gay?' That doesn't make me gay or not. I'm living my life. I'm not lying; I don't hide it.
~ Sue Bird
Sam Bradford was one of the most humble and grounded players I've ever been around; he got it. But I even told him, what makes you think those fans in the stands are wearing No.14 for you? Who says it's not an old Josh Heupel jersey?
~ Bob Stoops
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
~ James Patterson
I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.
~ Julia Sweeney
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
~ Pete Townshend
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
~ Stanley Kubrick
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
~ Thomas Merton
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
~ H. L. Mencken
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.
~ Al Smith
Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
~ Brian Tracy
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
~ William Saroyan
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
~ Zhuangzi
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
~ Havelock Ellis
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
~ Helen Rowland
Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
~ Isaac Asimov
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
~ Jerome Lawrence
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.
~ Faina Ranevskaya
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me.
~ Gwen Stefani
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
~ H. G. Wells