Quotes About Self-awareness

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

I used to think I was a night owl. I realized I'm not, because I have energy at night, but I'm not as focused and productive when I try to get things done.

I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.

My biggest thing is, I'm learning what it's like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

People know me only from the Octagon, from the gym. I'm a different person outside and I am who I want to be.

People say that when you become famous you're growth is kind of stunted. That kind of makes sense because you are around people who are just agreeing with you and leading you into different places and you don't really make many choices for yourself.

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

Everyone deals with criticism in a different way. Some guys read it, some guys don't really listen to it, some guys try to stay away from it, some guys get angry about it.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'