Quotes About Self-aware

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

The day is conscious of itself.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

Set any one to talk about himself, instead of about other people, and you will have a seam of the precious mental metal opened up to you at once; only ore, most likely, that needs much smelting and refining; or it may be, not gold at all, but a metal which your mental alchemy may turn into gold.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands.

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.

at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation it was important to make a distinction between Artificial General Intelligence and ordinary AI. AGI being the sort that was self-aware enough to pass the Turing test and ask difficult philosophical questions before going "Daisy-Daisy" and trying to wipe out humanity, while ordinary AI mainly tried to sell you books on Amazon.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

I was a boring man but a reflective man.

I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.

'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.

The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances

The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

I don't want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.

I'm not good, I'm just quiet

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

I may be a bit innocent but I don't think I am that dumb.

what hurt me was actually me, myself. In the midst of that continuing, unsettled silence my feelings, like a heavy pendulum, a razor-sharp blade

What I am looking for is not out there. It is in me.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?