Quotes About Self-awareness

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they're not easy, nature didn't give them to us - we have to learn them.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

The source of all light is in the eye.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.