Quotes About Self-awareness

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one's own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

I do think I am funny, or I wouldn't be where I am today. I do think there is always room for improvement and learning.

We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.