Quotes About Self-awareness

It's okay to be an introvert, to seek out the quiet corners at a cocktail party, to care about quality, to have your mood be affected by your surroundings.

The professional is prepared at a deeper level. He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.

You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist

The amateur is often unkind or insensitive to others, but she saves her most exquisite cruelty for herself.

In my experience, when we project a quality or virtue onto another human being, we ourselves almost always already possess that quality, but we're afraid to embrace (and to live) that truth.

Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur's worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.

I've read a dozen different versions of Stanislavski's famous Three Questions, i.e. the queries an actor must ask him- or herself before playing any scene. Here's my version: Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want? The second two are pretty easy. It's the first that's the killer.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment.

The Daily Show reported recently that scientists in Japan had invented a robot that is capable of recognizing its own reflection in a mirror. When the robot learns to hate what it sees, said Jon Stewart, it will have achieved full humanity.

It frightens you how practical you can be, how cold, even with your own.

You cannot release being judgmental whilst you remain in judgment of it.

Maintaining our shit takes a lot of work. To awaken is to release this effort and face your shit.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.

Results for I looked as respectable as the bum they were booking. I fancied I smelled better, but perhaps not. I've noticed that most of us don't have a clue what we smell like to other people. It's almost as though our noses blank us out in self-defense.

Why is it that other people's plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I

Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether.

The only cleavage I got left, I sit on," she said and then hooted at herself.

I'm smart 1 day out of 30, but I never know which day it will be so I have to sit patiently, feeling like an ignoramus most of the time.

Jack Kornfield offers a beautiful image for our new understanding: "We can let ourselves be carried by the river of feeling—because we know how to swim.

In a group of studies Mikulincer showed that when we feel safely connected to others we understand ourselves better and like ourselves more.

If we cannot name and accept our own attachment needs, sending clear messages to others when those needs are hot is impossible.

She'd thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn't a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with.

When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, "Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.