Quotes About Self-awareness

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

I've always written down how I feel.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

As for being the best goalkeeper in the world, it's been written occasionally, but I'd never say it myself.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. 'Exit the King' is also 'The Bald Soprano.'

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.

At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it because it's not good for you.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn't want to discover what behavior he's capable of.

Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.