Quotes About Self-awareness

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize–winning physicist

Part of knowing who you are is knowing who you're not.

Once you assess your own skill and the situation, often things change. As long as you stop and really look, I think people's lives will change kind of radically, especially for women. Women are very, very quick to say they're scared. That's something I really want to change.

5—Morning Pages or 5-Minute Journal (5 to 10 minutes)

Therefore, to be furious and enraged and bitter that people don't get all of who we are is a really a cruel piece of immaturity.

Dude, are you turning into the bald fat man in the red BMW convertible?

Telling myself the victim story allows me to vent briefly. Once I'm over it, then I realize that if this meeting was so important to me, I should have made it clear to my girlfriend that I couldn't be late, and let her know that if she was running late, I'd have to leave without her.

Buddhists believe that we are the cause of our own suffering. We can't control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it's how we react to them that really matters, and that we can learn to control.

Ultimately, your gift to the world is being who you are. It is both your gift and your fulfillment.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." –Frederick Douglass

I believe I'm below average. It's a deliberate, cultivated belief to compensate for our tendency to think we're above average.

job descriptions as self-descriptions.

I was back in the prison of all of the things that hold me back, but I could see that the door was locked from the inside.

When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

I now often ask myself, "Is this really a problem I need to think my way out of? Or is it possible I just need to fix my biochemistry?" I've wasted a lot of time journaling on "problems" when I just needed to eat breakfast sooner, do 10 push-ups, or get an extra hour of sleep. Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.

Don't believe everything you think." –BJ Miller, MD

Je?li kto? nie sprawia, ?e stajesz si? lepszy, tak naprawd? sprawia, ?e stajesz si? gorszy.

create yourself, instead of seeking to discover yourself.

What am I continuing to do myself that I'm not good at?" Improve it, eliminate it, or delegate it.

Przyklej na ekranie komputera samoprzylepn? karteczk? lub ustaw w Outlooku przypomnienie dotycz?ce tego, by co najmniej trzy razy dziennie zadawa? sobie pytanie: "Czy nie wyszukuj? sobie zaj?? tylko po to, by unikn?? tego, co wa?ne?

Qué decisiones de las que has tomado te han convertido en la persona que eres?»

2—10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it and treat it as math.

The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right." —Neil Gaiman, University

Which of these highest-value activities is the easiest for me to do?