Quotes About Self-awareness

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.