Quotes About Self-awareness

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

I'm still just a loud-mouth girl from Michigan. I thought I might've grown out of that, but people are always reminding me that I haven't.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and I identified as single.

I'm one of those women who's not to be messed with. I'm very opinionated and boisterous at times. I'm also kind and humble. I know when to fold and when to hold, and that's important. If my edge scares you, then you have a choice to remove yourself.

Television does devour you because you have all sorts of responsibilities, and I really needed to renew myself. I think I owed it to myself. So I honored myself and quit. I think that's a wonderful way to put it.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

If you don't learn from why you're in the position you're in, you are doomed to repeat it. You need to bring meaning to every setback.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

You get to a stage where you replay every scenario in your head, but you have to stop; otherwise, you drive yourself insane.

Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.