Quotes About Self-awareness

Whether you're playing sports, starting a business or anything else in life, you need to identify your talents. Your responsibility is to find what you do better than anyone else. Once you identify what that is, you need to put yourself in the best position to succeed.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

I guess people think I'm aloof just because I don't talk much. I guess I'd think the same thing if I saw myself.

It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

I know I've made mistakes, and sometimes I've talked about things too openly or directly. That wasn't good, and I've learned from that.

People all want and need different emotional responses - some people like to be talked down when they're angry; some people want to be left alone.

Technology can be an enormous enabler. I'll give you one example. I have never really talked about this before, but I am dyslexic and I didn't find that out at school.

Even if I'm talking about something that's negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.

I'm not good at talking about myself.

What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football.

Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.

My job gives me the permission to ask really great questions, like, 'Are you sure you're not pissed at him?' or, 'Is the eating really about food, or does it have something to do with your mother?' or, 'How is your sex life? I mean, I know we're here talking about your job, but I can tell this has to do with your sex life.'

What everybody talks about is their own problem, to be honest with you.