Quotes About Self-awareness

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.