Quotes About Self-awareness

Instead of regarding them as things that just need to go away, we look at the behaviors as a precious resource, valuable information that can be mined to develop a more satisfying picture of what may really be happening. Another

Bridgewater's Ray Dalio, for example, places a high premium on what he calls "radical open-mindedness," by which he means something qualitatively beyond a mere willingness to listen to a competing view when and if it comes to call. "To be radically open-minded," he says, "you need to be so open to the possibility that you might be making a mistake and/or that you have a weakness that you encourage others to tell you so.

Just be an observer, not a reactor, to your emotions.

Be careful what you learn because your mind is so powerful that you become what you put in your head.

True humility, we believe, consists of two things. The first is knowing our limitations. And the second is getting the help we need.

We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness, and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Stop it! Do not think of things that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot think about. Concentrate on what is. Now. You. Not what others say you are—not even what you may think you are. Only the now. And the now is a man who can give you answers.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

I'm not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

And suddenly, in view of these reflections, Ulrich had to smile and admit to himself that he was, after all, a character, even without having one.

for one knows little of oneself unless one has someone else in whom one is reflected. And since what one knows is really nothing, might it not be that at times he wished Tonka dead so that this intolerable existence might be over and done with?

A person never finds himself a total coward, because if something frightens him he runs just far enough away to consider himself a hero again!

There was only the sound of the July-flies, which seems to be inside your head like it is the grind and whirr of the springs and cogs which are you and which will not stop no matter what you say until they are good and ready.

And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's

It is human defect—to try to know oneself by the self of another. One can only know oneself in God and in His great eye.)

And because without objects there can be no subject-- because the objects create the subject's awareness of himself-- quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible.

Judgments are thoughts, and thoughts are living, moving energy. Because energy attracts like energy, judgment attracts judgmental people. The world is a mirror in which we glimpse ourselves. If there are judgmental people around us, it may be that life is asking us to examine our own willingness or tendency to judge.

I'm getting older everyday, you know. I'm not like a fine wine that just gets better with age. I'm more like a good strong cheese. I can only be aged so long before I start to stink.

The iguanodon has modest powers of self awareness. She feels happy and complacent and content. She feels efficient, in a vague I'm doing what I should be doing and I'm doing it well sort of way.

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.