Quotes About Self-awareness

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

I wouldn't call myself a real point guard.

I know what I can do and I know I can pass the ball. I know I can be a true point guard and I know I can score also.

I played point guard in the past and I know myself.

I'm very confident in my point of view. 'Cause I think that that's all you can really have. I'm never really going to know what anybody else is going through, so it's just kind of your job to be expressive with your point of view.

You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.

When 'Himmatwala' didn't work, the negativity factor attached to the reviews were more pointed towards me. That's when I realized, that something has gone wrong.

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I am not a saint, and neither do I claim to walk on water.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

As I get older, I have a clearer sense of what's important to me.