Quotes About Self-awareness

When we uplift artists who reflect diverse perspectives their stories not only tell us how people view others, but how they view themselves.

I was very conscious of my upper arms. I never wore sleeveless. I always wore a cardigan. I saw myself being super conscious of my appearance.

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.

Sometimes you are heartbroken, and sometimes you don't treat others well. I think it's a generic occurrence with all of us. Everyone has such experiences. I also had my share of ups and downs and broken moments.

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

The moment you think you're not funny, the next funny thing you think of is just around the corner. So you have to appreciate the natural breathing patterns, the ups and downs. There are moments you're going to be hilarious and moments where you're going to be not so hilarious. That's just the way it works.

On the whole, I don't think I have any regrets. Every decision that I have made and all the ups and downs made me the person that I am.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

I'm tortured because I care. I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.

I can't stand confrontation, which maybe is a character flaw. But having said that, I do feel like when I do get upset - which is rare, as my husband and family would say - I have a hard time letting go.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

The thing I needed to learn about Miranda was where her motivation comes from when she gets upset. There's been a few times where Miranda's a brat or crying online, and it seems very surface level, and I think that I needed to learn where her insecurities came from, because online she just comes across as kind of bratty.

I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I'm sort of an alarmist.

I guess people don't like me for getting as upset as I am sometimes when I lose, but that's me.

I think your first relationship that you need to master is with yourself, your body, your mind, with your heart when you understand what triggers you have, what makes you upset what causes you to sort of take chances.

If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

I quit because I was good, and when you're good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.''Of what?''Of what part of yourself you didn't know you were selling.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.