Quotes About Self-awareness

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

Enough of the 'Canada is a modest country' boasts. Please. Just stop.

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

I've learnt so much over time and with the experience that I've gained. You can't please everyone.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

I can sing, but I don't know how pleasing it is to the ear, you know.

I tell women to stop learning how to keep a man and make him happy, and to try figuring out what they want from a relationship, to trust their own instincts and not worry about pleasing someone else.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No...' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

Early, I wanted to fight against things: 'Oh, I feel like a background dancer here in the back of the Wyatts.' Man, looking back now, I wish we could still be doing that. I'm on TV every week, plenty of TV. You've got to look at some of the positives of the situation.

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.

I got drafted at 19. I've got millions of dollars in my pocket, I could have lost my damn mind. I don't see how you could consider me immature.