Quotes About Self-awareness

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.