Quotes About Self-awareness

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Our biases can be used against themselves: we are better placed to nudge our friends and family away from their prejudices than we are to urge such moral transformation on strangers.

Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

To be adult means, among other things, to see one's own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.

But Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.

He laughed. "So you see, I'm not a nut. Not a real one, anyway. I haven't been a real nut in a long time.

He shrugged. Confusion was like struggling to find the proper way to sit inside his skin.

Who am I talking to other than myself here? Someone I hope who at least knows my languages.

Tell me this. Are you all that happy? Be honest now." ..."I think... there's something wrong with your question, you know? I spend a lot of time happy; Inspend a lot of time unhappy; I spend a lot of time just bored. Maybe if I worked real hard at it, I could avoid some of the happiness, but I doubt it. The other two I know I'm stuck with...

mean, you don't go around thinking about yourself by your own name, do you? Nobody does—unless somebody calls to you by it, or asks you what it is. I haven't been around people who know me for…for a while now.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Never less alone than when alone.

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Certaines gens, plantés devant leur miroir, croient qu'ils réfléchissent, alors que c'est le contraire.

On est toujours le con de quelqu'un.