Quotes About Self-awareness

Hiçbir yetenek inkar? cezas?z kalmaz ve yetene?in inkar?na te?ebbüsün ad? nörozdur.

I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else

The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes them always able to evade it discreetly, to slip round it.

Yaln?z oldu?um zamanlar ancak ikiye kadar sayabilirim.

Mon je ne me suffit pas.

Let's say that it's a good idea to see these things as they are, in order to gain some necessary detachment... — He gave a sad little smile. — I know, I know - the hardest peace treaties are the ones one has to conclude with oneself.

The dominant strain of the twentieth century, whether emanating from Marx or Freud, has been self-awareness; we have lost the art of forgetting ourselves. Which means we have little chance of being happy, since so much of happiness consists of inner peace; of playing ostrich, in fact. To say nothing of the fact that all this psychological self-consciousness is rather vulgar...

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves: for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did and thought and loved when they were alive.

Learning from our mistakes and holding on to our memories help us become deeper individuals with a better sense of who we are and how we choose to live our lives.

Glanzman is enigmatic. Half of me is a nice lovable paternal type, the other a hardnose and cunning tummler. Against my better judgment I'll listen to my lovable side." "Let's both listen.

A man of principles," Jesse said. "People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher, wrote the now classic The Art of War nearly twenty-five hundred years ago. This book has become the classic on how to achieve victory in the battlefield. He said this about the enemy: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

You know best who you really are by watching what you do rather than listening to what you say.

Self-awareness and discipline are relevant to the task of generating for yourself the freedom to respond with a nondefensive defense when the attack is personal, and with an expanded set of options when it is not.

The most difficult work of leadership involves learning to experience distress without numbing yourself.

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

Whatever your destination, you will be followed by your failings.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.