Quotes About Self-awareness

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I'm still the same person.

Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

In each moment, you have a choice where you can build yourself up or tear yourself down, and choosing to build yourself up is always within your power.

In the years after I left Netflix, the company I co-founded, I didn't want to puff myself up or tear anyone else down.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.

I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy.

I don't like to praise myself - that I am the quickest, that I am the strongest, that I am the most technical guy - I never do that.

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.

Technically I'm pescatarian now as I love prawns. And I still have the odd fizzy drink after a game. I'm not a saint.

Listen, Im not technically the best singer in the world.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

I am aware that I am not extraordinarily gifted in terms of technique.

I wouldn't expect anybody to look for superawesome crisp technique out of me.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

In my view, if you have good or bad technique, it doesn't matter. But you will survive if you can adjust your game at international level, you are mentally strong, you know your strengths and how to score runs.

When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.

I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out.