Quotes About Self-awareness

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.'

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I've learned more and more to just protect myself and avoid things that'll hurt my feelings.

A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

I am imperfect and proud of it. No one is perfect.

People can call me arrogant, but why should I lie? Of course I feel strong, and of course I am proud as well.

I always try to say what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, and without fear of what others will say or think, and that's how I've always lived. Sometimes, this has ended up hurting me, and other times, it has helped me, but I think you can never forget who you are, and I've always been myself, and that one of the things I'm most proud of.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of.

I've never been part of a movie I would watch over and over again, and I'm really proud of it.

Listen, not all of us are proud of what we say or do at times.

I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

I took a selfie to prove to myself that I exist!

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

The win over DeGale felt satisfying for several reasons as it proved what I've known all along.