Quotes About Self-awareness

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.