Quotes About Self-awareness

Inaccurate self-observation. People with ADD are poor self-observers. They do not accurately gauge the impact they have on other people. They usually see themselves as less effective or powerful than other people do.

That's the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we've even made up our minds about ourselves.

Barely, but I did. Then in college I did really well. Can you imagine that? Which is why I went to graduate school. But that was probably a big mistake. I should have quit while I was ahead. You see, my problem is I don't know whether I'm smart or if I'm stupid. I've done well, and I've done poorly, and I've been told that I'm gifted and I've been told that I'm slow. I don't know what I am.

Shakespeare might advise, "The fault is not in our markets, but in ourselves…

You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again...

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

Thinking that you are good can make you bad. Talking about positive behavior can encourage negative behavior. Laozi is clearly on to something when he warns us that consciously trying to be righteous will, in fact, turn us into insufferable hypocrites and that anyone striving to attain virtue is destined to fail.

The conscious mind, ungrounded by the wisdom of the body, is remarkably incapable of taking care of business.

This time he was going to fall apart silently.

We have also seen that they give clients feedback about the impact they are having on the therapist—and others. It can be a gift when therapists use process comments to provide interpersonal feedback, and therapists can find constructive, noncritical ways to help clients see themselves from others' eyes and learn about the impact they are having on others (such as regularly making others feel bored, intimidated, impatient, overwhelmed, confused, and so forth).

These unwanted performance pressures are generated when new therapists frame what they don't know or can't do yet as a "deficit" or as evidence of their inadequacy, rather than more realistically framing it as merely their own inexperience.

and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey

To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself (pp 111).

At any given time, we are all doing the best we can. The problem is, our best often isn't good enough for us. We then punish ourselves, denying ourselves peace because we feel we don't deserve it. A sad situation remedied when we finally accept, we are doing the best we can.

I ask you, what do I have to hide? The fact that I'm not half the man I wanted to be? The fact that these little pieces of wisdom I string together add up to not much at all?

All men think all men are mortal but themselves.

Anger is a wasted emotion.

Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that "arrogant," "headstrong," "narcissistic," and "cold" will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.

When you are aware that you are being triggered, rather than simply reacting, you can remain detached, and separate your emotions from your true self. Tolle

The game did not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they had brains they couldn't sit tight. Old

A trader, in addition to studying basic conditions, remembering market precedents and keeping in mind the psychology of the outside public as well as the limitations of his brokers, must also know himself and provide against his own weaknesses. There is no need to feel anger over being human.

If you do not know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.