Quotes About Self-awareness

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.

In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.