Quotes About Self-awareness

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

I feel myself in ways to be the product of internalized male gaze.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.

We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven't already been.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

We cannot stop anyone from criticising us.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

I consider myself a little weak.

There's nothing wrong or weak about seeking a therapist. I have a therapist.