Quotes About Self-awareness

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

Out of culinary school, I worked as a pastry cook in amazing restaurants for years. I ended up leaving the pastry cook scene because, though I loved the industry, the restaurants and the chefs I worked for so much, I had to be honest with myself. I was never going to be them.

To be honest, I wasn't the best stand-up comic.

The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.

In the end, I didn't think I was good enough to use sax as a stage performer to get where I wanted, and thank God I chose my voice as my instrument instead. You need to be honest with yourself, and I was.

Being compared to players, being linked to other teams - I don't really take any of it in, to be honest. If you think about it too much, you get caught up in it.

I don't think I'll ever be another Steven Gerrard, to be honest!

If I'm going to be honest with you, I made a lot of mistakes. I made a lot of mistakes in a very short period of time.

I think it's just really good to be honest with yourself and if I'm not feeling up for something I have no problem staying in my room in ordering some food and relaxing and managing my energy and kind of just checking in with myself throughout the day.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

You have to love yourself. That's the single most powerful thing. Out of that springs: How are you eating? How are you exercising? How are you resting?

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.

I'm real and honest, and I take things day by day. That's just the way to survive.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

I'm very conscious of what I wear, and what I say. I know that if I go out, there will be 10 people who will notice me from head to toe.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

I'm very confident with who I am and how I lead, and I'm a problem solver and like to keep myself on my toes.