Quotes About Self-awareness

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die.

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

The only difference between me and my critics is that I don't lie to the world about who I am. People are complicated and often seemingly hypocritical. Embrace the diversity of your mind.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.

Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.

I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I'm better not operating at center stage.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy, said the Dragon-fly

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.