Quotes About Self-awareness

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.

I don't want to sound bigheaded or anything, but when you reach a certain level of recognition or fame, or whatever you want to call it, when you're young the first couple of years you think, 'Oh, this is fun.'

Recognition happens when you see yourself from the inside-out: as someone who can make an impact on the world instead of navigating the impact the world has on you.

I guess my voice is more recognizable than I know!

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

Nobody's perfect, everybody is flawed in a way, and to recognize your own flaws and to just enjoy them is something that I try to do for myself. I do that all the time.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

In the past, I was sometimes put in this women's lit category, and I was never really sure that was the appropriate place for me - although I certainly recognize it can be helpful and correct for other people.

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

I'm a pretty private person, so I don't mind not being recognized.

I recently caught myself giving a pretty girl the cold shoulder because I felt intimidated. She was so gorgeous, and it made me feel insecure. I wasn't even aware until someone pointed it out to me. I was so embarrassed! I recognized those thoughts and made a point to be more friendly to her because there was no reason to be cold.

Part of being really objective about your trade, your music, or your art is recognizing that you might not know everything about it.