Quotes About Self-awareness

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

I think it's an important time not to Google myself.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my travels.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

I am only human, although I regret it.

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.