Quotes About Self-awareness

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

I'm not very good at promotion.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)

I'm not a good mother at all.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.