Quotes About Self-awareness

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

I watch clothes on other people, and it's like having a conversation before opening your mouth. For me, clothes come from the mind. They represent what's happening inside, and as long as they feel honestly like what I'm thinking about and going toward, I'm happy to bounce around and experience different things.

Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they have hopes and dreams is taken away from people of color in their representation.

I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.

I always told my representatives, 'Look, I come from the 'School of Janet' - that's my mom - she raised me to know that I'm more than just set dressing.

All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

I can be a bit weird, cross when I'm cross, tired when I'm tired, and hungry when I'm hungry.

I don't see myself as a hunk of meat.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.