Quotes About Self-awareness

Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.

College education teaches you humility.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league.

I know what I'm about. My teammates know, my family knows, everything else, I can't worry about.

I feel like I gotta get out of myself sometimes. I think I'm in my own world sometimes. I don't like to let other people come into my own world. Especially with my teammates, my coaches, I should be doing that. The important people that need to know how I'm feeling. I can do a better job of telling them exactly how I feel.

You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.

Teams want fast players. That's not me. But I know my strengths.

She laughed softly. "Therapy isn't so much about what I think as you do." "Then why do it at all?" "Because we don't always know what it is we're thinking or feeling. When you have a guide, it's easier to figure things out. You'll often discover that you already know what to do. I can help you ask questions and go places you might not have on your own.

I'd thought I was bold and alluring, but I was only a girl playing at being a woman.

Ben bu insanlardan daha üstünüm', diye söylendim içimden. 'Bir soylu oldu?um için de?il, daha iyi bir insan oldu?um için.

You can't help the way you feel.

What was one more foolish decision in a life full of them?

God, I'm an idiot," I said, once we'd almost reached our destination. "That's never a term I'd use to describe you," he said promptly. "Articulate. Well dressed. Smart. Organized. Beautiful. I'd use those terms, but never 'idiot.

I could not even ask myself how in the fuzzy hell I got here, because I knew precisely how it happened, year by year.

Show them how their behavior is self-defeating. To create self-motivation for change, you have to show them how something important to them is lost because of their behavior.

When you verbally appreciate people who are criticizing you, you're letting go of the need to defend, explain, or justify your behavior. You