Quotes About Self-awareness

Put your choices in perspective.

I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'

I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

I definitely went through a phase where I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was younger... But I certainly wasn't very good at it.

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

I can't compare myself to Phil Jackson in any way, shape or form. His view on the world and his intellectual approach, I don't have that in common with him.

My philosophy is to be me.

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

A lot of times, I put my own personal health to the side, focusing on work or family or getting ahead. At the end of the day, you're just exhausted on your couch and haven't made that doctor's appointment, didn't make that phone call, and feel terrible.

In the past, there were many times when I thought, 'This photo doesn't look good with a low angle, or this part bothers me.'

Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!

You often need to take a step back and think about what reality is, and what the world was like before Instagram - things weren't about perfecting something for an hour just for a photo.

I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.