Quotes About Self-awareness

el poeta escocés Robert Burns expresó perfectamente en el siguiente poema: ¡Ah, si nos fuera dado el poder de vernos como los demás nos ven! De cuántos disparates y necedades nos libraríamos.

Benjamin Franklin put it well: "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one." There

darse cuenta de los propios sentimientos en el mismo momento en que éstos tienen lugar– constituye

I can foresee a day when education will routinely include inculcating essential human competencies such as self-awareness, self-control, and empathy, and the arts of listening, resolving conflicts, and cooperation.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

There are two major streams of self-awareness: "me," which builds narratives about our past and future; and "I," which brings us into the immediate present. The "me," as we've seen, links together what we experience across time. The "I," in stark contrast, exists only in the raw experience of our immediate moment.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nichomachean Ethics

el reconocimiento de que nos hemos distraído es el primer paso para recuperar la concentración

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy.

Una persona muy autoconsciente sabe adónde se dirige y por qué; así, por ejemplo, se mostrará firme al rechazar una oferta laboral que resulte tentadora desde un punto de vista económico pero no encaje con sus principios u objetivos a largo plazo.

Benjamin Franklin put it well: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

Una de las características principales de la autoconciencia es un sentido del humor autocrítico.

Cualquiera puede enfadarse, eso es algo muy sencillo. Pero enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo.

Thus while we cannot decide when we have our emotional outbursts, we have more control over how long they last. A quicker recovery time from such outbursts may well be one mark of emotional maturity.

A consciência de nós mesmos e dos outros, e a sua aplicação na gestão do nosso mundo interior e das nossas relações, são a essência da inteligência emocional.

Tania Singer, director of the social neuroscience department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, has studied empathy and self-awareness

Much evidence testifies that people who are emotionally adept—who know and manage their own feelings well, and who read and deal effectively with other people's feelings—are at an advantage in any domain of life, whether romance and intimate relationships or picking up the unspoken rules that govern success in organizational politics.

Those who can manage their emotional lives with more calm and self-awareness seem to have a distinct and measurable health advantage, as has now been confirmed by many studies.

there was one "meta" ability that emerged: self-awareness. Chief executives need this ability to assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and so surround themselves with a team of people whose strengths in those core abilities complement their own.

las capacidades de la IE (más que el coeficiente intelectual o las habilidades técnicas) se presentan como la competencia «determinante»

La gente tiende a ser muy eficiente en la gestión de las relaciones cuando logra comprender y controlar sus emociones y demostrar empatía por las de los demás.

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What makes the difference between stars and the others is not their academic IQ, but their emotional IQ. They are better able to motivate themselves.

Psychologists use the rather ponderous term metacognition to refer to an awareness of thought process, and metamood to mean awareness of one's own emotions. I prefer the term self-awareness, in the sense of an ongoing attention to one's internal states.