Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm not infallible. Never will be.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

I'm not as careful as I look, which is why I choose not to do social media. It's really because I don't trust myself. I'm also very easily influenced by my feelings and will impulsively act on my emotions, which is another reason why I don't do social media.

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'

Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.

I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.

Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

Now, I'm fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who keeps on singing, and that's a bad singer who keeps on singing because he has issues.

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

There are parts of me where during my initial ascent to the main roster, I thought I was ready. Not that I wasn't ready for the main roster, but maybe at times I wasn't as ready as I thought.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

It happened with me in the past that I was not well trained for a reason, like an injury, and I started talking a lot to fool myself, to show everyone that I'm fine, but I was not.

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn't really know: an inner fighter in me.

Louder Than Bombs' shows our inner shadows.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.