Quotes About Self-awareness

You're a little short on self-awareness. People who are always exacting right behaviour from other people tend to be that way.

The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own.

Autonoetic consciousness is our best friend and worst enemy. It enables us to write and revise our narrative, our self-story, as we live each moment of each day.

When split-brain patients fabricate verbal (left hemisphere based) explanations for behaviors that were produced by the right hemisphere, the left hemisphere is generating explanations of behaviors produced by nonconscious systems and does so in the maintenance of a sense of self. That is, our behavior is an important way we come to know who we are. This is the essence of Gazzaniga's interpreter theory of consciousness (see Chapter 6).

Self-knowledge is certainly a significant aspect of human motivation, but even animals that are not self-aware, or at least not robustly aware of who they are the way a human is, are motivated to do things-they seek food and shelter and avoid predators and injury. Much of what we humans do is also influenced by processes that percolate along outside of awareness. Consciousness is important, but so are the underlying cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes that work unconsciously.

The ease with which one is capable of deluding oneself in this field is legendary.

The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

growing up is about growing in wisdom and virtue and learning to curtail our selfishness so that we can give ourselves more selflessly to others.

No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.

I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy

back." As he spoke, Ivypool sprang to her paws. "This is all my fault," she mewed

Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself

Am I a monster?" he whispered hoarsely.

It takes some cats longer to see past their weaknesses clearly enough to appreciate their strengths

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. "I'm not as blind as you think.

I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

Ljudi su tako kratkovidi. Kad su sre?ni, onda su sre?ni na neki glup i nepodnošljiv na?in, kad su pod stresom, onda su pod stresom na neki glup i nepodnošljiv na?in, a kad su ljuti, to je opet glupo i nepodnošljivo. Ja valjda prosto smatram da su glupi, da nemaju pojma ni o ?emu. Misle da su besmrtni.

Ne postoji ama baš ništa ?emu su potrebni ljudi, osim možda samim ljudima.

I've been thinking about what you said yesterday, he says. About my unique qualities and talents and all that. You're right. I am unique and talented. And you're unique, too. We're both unique. Everyone is unique. In a way, I say. But unique just means unique. It doesn't mean good.

Du ser splinten i din nestes øye, men ikke bjelken i ditt eget.

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

Y para qué quieren ser libres si no saben ser libres? La libertad no es gracia que se recibe ni derecho que se conquista. Se es libre aunque se carezca de libertad. Los hierros y las cárceles no impiden que un hombre sea libre. La libertad de un hombre no es como la libertad de los pájaros que se satisface en el vaivén de un aroma. La libertad de un hombre está en su conciencia.

I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.