Quotes About Self-awareness

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

Why is a two-year-old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her pleasure might not actually give someone else pleasure—and the truth is that as adults we never lose that fascination.

they would have worried for my soul. Pronin calls this phenomenon the "illusion of asymmetric insight." She writes: The conviction that we know others better than they know us—and that we may have insights about them they lack (but not vice versa)—leads us to talk when we would do well to listen and to be less patient than we ought to be when others express the conviction that they are the ones who are being misunderstood or judged unfairly.

Tversky Intelligence Test": The faster you realized Tversky was smarter than you, the smarter you were.

self-consciousness is the enemy of "interestingness.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Only the mistakes were mine.

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

He who conquers self conquers all.

I wouldn't do anything different. Every mistake and every success made me the person I am today. And I am proud of who I am.

Your success and happiness start with you.

Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

Success didn't spoil me I've always been insufferable.

When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you are willing to accept in your career.

Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of.

You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!

The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you'll be in all areas of life.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.

You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.