Quotes About Self-awareness

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.

I used to be an angry man myself. I'm a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

So, you've uncovered the fact that I'm an asshole. Why is that news?

Jobs knew that he was not ready to run the company himself, even though there was a part of him that wanted to try. Despite his arrogance, he could be self-aware. Markkula agreed; he told Jobs that he was still a bit too rough-edged and immature to be Apple's president. So they launched a search for someone from the outside.

When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that.

It's one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings. I shouldn't have. They had done so much to make sure I could go there, but I just didn't want them around. I didn't want anyone to know I had parents.

Jobs later said that he never read the novel. "I heard it was about me," he told me, "and if it was about me, I would have gotten really pissed off, and I didn't want to get pissed at my sister, so I didn't read

simply enjoy giving more than receiving in every respect, do not take myself nor the doings of the masses seriously, am not ashamed of my weaknesses and vices, and naturally take things as they come with equanimity and humor.

At Boston Macworld, as Gates discusses their deal: "That was my worst and stupidest staging event ever. It made me look small.

I mention "mosaic," a term often used in biology. "That's a better description than grayscale," she says. "And frankly that's true for all of us. All of us, if we're honest with ourselves, know that we have things that we're great at and things that we're not so great at.

Only through the personal awareness and "inward conviction" that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded.

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults 

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

Few people know how much you have to know in order to know how little you know.

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.

my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent mortification.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.)

Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his future life collapse in on itself like a dying star. His future life becoming small and dark and dense, its gravity apparently grim and inescapable. Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow spent some cash on a bottle of vodka and drank it at home within an hour.

They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached along the barren path of self-analysis.

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.