Quotes About Self-perception

the mirror above the bureau—a flushed blurred face. I had learned to look quickly away from that face for so often I hated what I saw.

When she was naked she generally found her body rather beautiful, although she could never in a million years have admitted this to anyone. In clothes, in front of other people, she felt ashamed of her weight, her sloppiness, always something, but it was more because of what she felt they saw when they looked at her. Now

He's really fat.

Life is like a mirror, what you see out there, you must first see what is inside you.

It was a matter of perspective, I began to see. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist." -- Dolores Price

He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.

Si será modesto que se cree inferior a sí mismo. ÁLVARO DE FIGUEROA Y TORRES

It is as though no black man can see another black man except by looking through a white person. It is time we started seeing through our own eyes.

Jonathan suffered from bigorexia, the body dysmorphia that occurs when a young man like Jonathan continues working on his physical strength, often temporarily magnifying it with steroids, in the hope that it will fill the black hole of his psychic wound.

How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star's child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?

I squeeze my eyes shut and practice being not seen. I open one eye. "Well? Can you see me?" "Yes, Bob, I can see you." She said my name. Bob. It makes me feel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, seen. And heard. Like I'm a person. Or whatever I am. I'm glad I'm not invisible after all.

Most people are actually far less potent than they imagine themselves in their dreams, and are endowed with far greater qualities and capacities than they translate into action.

The notion that we have limited access to the workings of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien to our experience, but it is true: you know far less about yourself than you feel you do.

Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be. We also tend to exaggerate our ability to forecast the future, which fosters optimistic overconfidence.

The distinction between two selves is applied to the measurement of well-being, where we find again that what makes the experiencing self happy is not quite the same as what satisfies the remembering self.

Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be.

people tend to be overly optimistic about their relative standing on any activity in which they do moderately well.

Los estudios sobre cognición humana atribuyen este exceso de optimismo a numerosos motivos. Uno de los más poderosos es la tendencia de los individuos a exagerar el propio talento, a creer que están por encima de la media en su asignación de características y habilidades positivas.

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

We don't always see ourselves as superior, but we almost always see ourselves as unique. Even when we do precisely what others do, we tend to think that we're doing it for unique reasons.

Please understand: I wear glasses. This was no place for a man with glasses.

When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.