Quotes About Self-awareness

Developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. but don't let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance

Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past--it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. —Helen Keller

Think About… How you might get more in tune with yourself. Spend at least a few minutes every day reflecting on how the day went. What went well and what would you like to have done better? Be mindful of feedback and make a point of thanking people who offer it.

If you look at practically anyone - I mean, I find this more and more - the more you look at people the more you find that they've actually manufactured themselves. People whose names that you know. I meet lots of people in my ordinary life, away from writing, who seem to be authentic, who seem to know where they've come from and who they are, but anyone that I deal with in, if you like, my profession, we all seem to have made ourselves. I think artists are all self-made.

I think I am becoming my own ghost.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Men watch. Women watch themselves being watched.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. (Page 40)

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The trouble with this country is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside. Good feelings and self-validation lie on the outside. They can never be generated from within.

Really tapping into our inner vision and inner child might not make us happier or better adjusted, but it might make us appreciate just how smart we really are.

we all have a number of executive subselves, and the only way we manage to accomplish anything in life is to allow only one subself to take the conscious driver's seat at any given time.

If you're not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

The cartoonist Jules Feiffer, contemplating the communication problem in a nonindustrial context, has said, "Actually, the breakdown is between the person and himself. If you're not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.