Quotes About Self-awareness

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

We are ready to be criticised by any journalists because we know we are not perfect.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.

I am real, my motto is not to allow myself to stagnate in any which way, be it emotional, mental, physical and practical, I feel I have conquered the deep recesses of my life.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

In real life, I am nothing like a playboy.

I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.

In real life, there's nobody more out than Sean. It was just in the press that he didn't want to say one way or another. I think he just felt it was nobody's business, but I feel like he came to it in his own time.

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

I'm not very funny at all in real life.

I know - without sounding arrogant - that I could've played at Real Madrid... but I didn't work hard enough for that.

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.