Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm never going to overestimate the clout of my job.

I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Sometimes I wanted to be aggressive. I felt like if I wasn't getting shots up or if I wasn't being overly aggressive on defense then I wasn't playing good. I finally realized just to slow down and just let the game come to you.

Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.

It was always important to me to be confident and strong with myself. It didn't happen overnight, but I've learned that the only way you can start to control things is if you feel a certain way about yourself.

I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having certain kinds of smarts didn't necessarily make him smart, he'd come to figure. He seemed to have blind spots. His heart was one.

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

The Wizard of Oz teaches us a valuable lesson about what makes a journey meaningful. It is not mere possession, but also awareness of our unique gifts that enables us to put them to use. We learn that conquering trepidation and taking that first step is the only way to come to self-awareness, master our talents, and seize opportunities to support each other to success.

Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.

Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility.

It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .

That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

The unexamined life isn't worth the high price that you must pay for it.

I'm only human, she told herself. There's not enough room in my heart for everyone.

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think