Quotes About Self-awareness

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.

I've gotten a little bit pompous. When I get out in public, I really notice myself looking at my reflections as a I walk though. New York is not a great place for me.

Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.

A lot of time when you're out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.

It's definitely something that is a direct reflection in the mirror when you do a reality show. You can see what your flaws are and what you need to work on.

I see reflections of what I love about myself in the love and care I receive from my friends, family, and co-workers who, in turn, allow me to love and care about them.

I've learnt to not look that deeply into what people say as it's mostly a reflection of themselves.

A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and build.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.

What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Be honest with yourself about what you're blowing off. A little cancellation here or a bow-out there can add up... but only if you refuse to acknowledge your actions.

Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.'

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I'm exactly the same as an adult.