Quotes About Self-awareness

All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what you are. I know who I am, but these people who see me as I was then don't.

I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Too many girls try to imitate others and don't think about what makes them unique. The best part of a girl is what makes her who she is as an individual.

People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?

I feel like I was trying to imitate other people or trying to be something I wasn't.

I am an immature person, and I am very lazy, too.

In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.

When we focus mostly on our immediate needs, wants, and desires, we may achieve some of them but hardly feel satisfied. When we feel connected to ourselves on a deeper level, we get happy. We feel safe.

Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

I don't agree with people saying that I am immune to advice or cannot admit when I make a mistake.

My worst quality is impatience.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

As I started to think about how I can claim feminism while also acknowledging my humanity and my imperfections, 'bad feminism' simply seemed like the best answer.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.