Quotes About Self-awareness

I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little. My parents thought I would change my mind. My boyfriends always think I'm going to change my mind, but it never happened. I fall in love with my businesses.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.

I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

I am not a calm, happy person. I am complicated.

We all should be taking a good, long, hard look at ourselves and figuring out what we are and how we got the way we are. And make damn well sure that we're doing at least something to make what's going on inside a little bit of a better situation.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

I like harmonizing with other people, but a lot of times, I do harmonize with myself.