Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

I'm such a perfectionist that I see every mistake that I make.

I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

I realized we're all perfectly imperfect, which was a big thing. Perfectionism, to me, was an important thing.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

I know my body perfectly well.

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

You have to learn to sell yourself. I think people forget they need to look at where else they've really performed in their life, where they've been in a place where they were confident.

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

I think I went more toward writing because that's my talent. I don't think I was a great performer... And I like being behind the scenes a little bit.

I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

You put me in the room with my family and everyone I grew up with, and I'd be the last person that you'd say is the performer.

I am not a circus performer.

I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'

Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

In any social situation I'd much rather be on the periphery of things than at the centre. When I'm standing at the edge I'm comfortable in my own skin. When I'm standing in the middle it's all confusion.

Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.