Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I'm not very good at being objective about myself.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that.

We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

I'm someone who likes to acknowledge the obvious and not feel like we must do or say things because it's what we're supposed to do.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

Obviously we're all our own biggest critics.

I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.