Quotes About Self-awareness

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I'm not going to sit here and tell anybody I haven't had difficulties in my life, haven't made any bad decisions. But to sit back and consider myself a bad person or not doing something positive, it's so untrue.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

I'm an unusual man. I know that.

It's amazing how unwilling most people are to admit they don't know the answer to a question or a problem and instead charge forward on a 'gut instinct' that turns out to be crap.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

I've gone up and down in my weight - I know my body. And for me, it's easy to go up or down.

For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That's it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was.

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.

So I'm not naturally happy all the time, all upbeat. People that know me will tell you that.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm not going to pretend not to be.

I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.