Quotes About Self-awareness

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

if you find something or somebody a bore, the fault lies in you.

Her uncanny empathy grew out of her tenuous sense of herself. She could shed her own troubles, compensating for her own emptiness, by losing herself in others' traumas—in effect, she could "be" another person, if only momentarily—even as she delivered the sort of compassion she desperately wanted for herself.

It's all very well learning why I behave in the way that I do. That doesn't stop me behaving in those ways. I am just more conscious of them.' Consciousness is where therapy stops and we begin. Therapy can only give us knowledge. It is up to us to use it.

This is not really me. I am not like this. I am like you. I am not a patient from a mental hospital. I am just an ordinary woman whose mind has gone temporarily wrong.

Therapy helped, but it is not magic. It does not change our thoughts or behaviours. It only teaches us what they might be. It does not work unless we take from it what we have learned and put it into action.

If we go on behaving in the same way, we will crash. If we pretend that those obstacles in our character don't exist, or are something else entirely, we will still crash. But if we acknowledge them and behave in a different way, we will come to a better and safer place.

It is humbling to be the parent of a child who brings our all of your weaknesses repetitively. But living in guilt for not being perfect will never serve our need to grow stronger.

The self is me, the me is I, and that's all that's left.

As the business sage Peter Drucker famously noted " We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend nearly enough time teaching them what to stop.

The point is, your definition of rising is always going to be personal, individual to you. But one of the biggest impediments to rising is also personal and individual: being blind to the behaviors and habits that keep you stuck.

Trying to change a behavior that gets in your way rarely succeeds unless you understand the beliefs that inform it. Beliefs create the framework that shapes your actions. They provide rationales for how you behave and offer logical reasons for why you actually don't need to change.

If you want to increase perceived value for you and your work, you need to focus on who you are, rather than what you do.

When you're in the zone, you're more likely to have an epiphany or reach a solution. As you become less self-conscious, you're more confident, which feels emotionally gratifying.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

A man's pride needs careful handling.

Kita tidak bisa mengendalikan apa yang kita rasakan, kita hanya bisa mengendalikan tindakan kita.

I'm not bragging, but merely stating facts. Sometimes I have to remember my accomplishments and successes so I don't dwell on my failures.

Finding someone's weakness only can make you strongest in the earth but not inside you. And someday you can be in the worst situation when someone found your biggest weakness. That day you will be left with regression. Nothing can change back!

The madman and the wise man are very similar, the only difference is that the wise man knows that he is crazy.

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

I'm afraid of an extra face in the mirror and sudden nights with voices, the deep certainty of things. (from Parca )

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.