Quotes About Self-aware

I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.

Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you, tovarishch, but I am.

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

I am arrogant,' he once said of himself in a perceptive piece of self-analysis, 'but not conceited.

I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.

I like to consider myself a tech fan. That doesn't mean I'm a tech whiz, by any means.

I am beginning to be conscious of being conscious.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.

Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.

The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.

Real people don't learn how to be unselfish. . But maybe they can be more self-aware for a second that they are. Or perhaps they are patheticly more unaware. How do you cure somebody of selfishness? Send them to Mother Teresa school? There's something deep-seated about selfishness.

His eyes had the ebb of his liver in them and he bore the air of a man who looks right at you and only sees the last of himself.

That's going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself. (Tender is the Night)

The joint realization that we live in a remarkable cosmic cocoon and can create languages and rocket ships in an otherwise apparently dumb universe ought to be transformative. Until we find other self-aware intelligences, we are how the universe thinks. We might as well start enjoying one another's company.

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

To put on the test others is very simple and easy while putting oneself into it, is the most difficult job, one who does that, it recognizes itself, it means one gains its way.

I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look like?

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

I'm a grounded person.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.