Quotes About Self-awareness

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.

Jack, I think I'm having a mid-life crisis. Oh Mom, you're way too old to be having a mid-life crisis.

You are what you are most profoundly thankful for, and what you love.

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.