Quotes About Self-awareness

Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

To have more empowering goals, look within

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.

I know him very well, but I think Alessandro Del Piero knows himself the best, better than everyone else, so only he can answer the question if he needs to stop or needs to play. It's his own decision.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I think of myself as an excellent actress with a lot to offer, but I'm not aggressive; I'm not ambitious. In fact, I'm anti-ambitious.