Quotes About Self-awareness

emotional aptitude is a meta-ability, determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have, including raw intellect.

elementos básicos da inteligência emocional: aprender a reconhecer, controlar e canalizar os sentimentos; ter empatia e lidar com os sentimentos que afloram em seus relacionamentos.

self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.

No podemos controlar lo que vamos a sentir, pero sí decidir qué hacemos a continuación.

Quando os músicos de jazz foram comparados com os músicos clássicos quanto a funções cerebrais, mostraram mais indicadores neuronais de consciência de si mesmos. Conforme disse um músico de jazz, «no jazz, é preciso sintonizarmo-nos quanto ao que o nosso corpo está a sentir, para sabermos quando avançar para um solo».

aprendizaje emocional.

Capturar uma mente divagante em ação é ardiloso; quase sempre, quando estamos perdidos em pensamentos, não conseguimos perceber que a nossa mente começou a vaguear no momento em que isso aconteceu. Notar que a nossa mente divagou assinala uma mudança na atividade cerebral; quanto maior for esta metaconsciência, mais fraca se torna a divagação da mente.

Não é a tagarelice das pessoas à nossa volta que constitui a fonte mais poderosa das distrações, mas antes a tagarelice das nossas próprias mentes. A concentração absoluta exige que estas vozes interiores sejam silenciadas.

As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

las emociones descontroladas pueden convertir en estúpida a la gente más inteligente.

The truth is, if we become comfortable with who we are rather than who we think we should be, then we will be less insecure.

The whole thing of what I've been trying," you said, "is that you're different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don't think about them, because of the way you are.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know I was stupid- the official descriptive phrase for happy.

It's one thing for forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then?

I wasn't just a fuck to them, any of them probably, is what I'm seeing. For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it.

I'm alone. There's a poem in that, but I don't want to write it. I don't want to be someone who spends Saturday night alone at home, writing poems about being alone.

Most of those people won't meet my eyes, now, but I'm not one of them. Every morning I get up, and while brushing my teeth, look at my showered self, calmly foaming at the mouth.

It's one thing to forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then?

He had seen himself naked and so had quite a few other people, although some of them do not remember.

A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.

we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. Fr one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie's eyes - looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed.

I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—