Quotes About Self-awareness

It's all about balance, and recognizing that no one is perfect.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

I'm a recovering politician.

When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.

I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.

I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.