Quotes About Self-awareness

The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Popularity is the last thing I want.

There's a way that mirrors can be portals towards vanity, but there are also ways they can be portals towards self-reflection and understanding.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a combination of their face and your face.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

I want to portray myself as myself.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

I have a strong personality - I know who I'm outside my work, and I'm nothing like the characters I portray.

People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.