Quotes About Self-awareness

I pushed away a lot of friendships.

A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

It takes a big man and a big woman to actually say, like, 'Okay, I'm in love with you, but I can't keep forcing it - it's only pushing us apart'.

Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.

I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

I am not in the habit of putting a ring on my own finger.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I'll be really tough on myself. Someone will be like, 'Oh that's really cool' and I'll be like, 'Yeah, but there's this one flaw.'

I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

I think it's important that things are flawed.

We're all flawed, and no one is perfect.