Quotes About Self-awareness

When I read or study, I don't do it for the degree - if I fail, it doesn't matter, but it just takes me out of this world where you're the centre of attention all the time. You just become a normal bloke when you're setting yourself those kinds of targets.

If I could go back and change how I left the NRL, I would. My name will forever be tarnished but I wasn't the man I am now.

The thing about tarot - maybe this to me is the difference between it and working with a psychic - to me it's clarifying the things that you already know. I don't feel like any tarot reading I've done or received was particularly surprising. They always speak to things that you kind of felt already.

Remembering who I am is a really active task for me. And I often have to tell myself, 'You're a graduate student,' 'You're a daughter,' et cetera, in situations where I'm supposed to behave like one.

I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

I know that I am not a great beauty, and I know that I am a certain taste.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

I remember being taught my place.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

I accept I am not everyone's cup of tea, but judge me over a period of time.

I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.

Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

Found out I'm actually a pretty good teacher.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.