Self-awareness Quotes

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

- A. E. van Vogt

The successful entrepreneurs that I see have two characteristics: self-awareness and persistence. They're able to see problems in their companies through their self-awareness and be persistent enough to solve them.

- Alan Schaaf

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

- Allison Williams

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

- Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

- Annie Lennox

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

- Bernard Goldberg

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

- Billy Eichner

'what.' is bombastic introspection. It's large, colourful, and loud but hopefully intimate at the same time.

- Bo Burnham

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

- Brenda Lee

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

- Caroline Knapp

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

- Cate Blanchett

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

- Daniel Goleman

Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.

- Daniel Lubetzky

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

- Debbie Ford

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

- Deepak Chopra

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

- Deepak Chopra

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

- Deepak Chopra

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

- Deepak Chopra

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

- Dennis Prager

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.

- Eliot Spitzer

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

- Elvis Mitchell

Introspection! I hate it!

- Ethel Kennedy

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

- Francis Spufford

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

- Fred Willard

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

- Gary Shteyngart

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

- Geoff Johns

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

- George A. Sheehan

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

- Hugh Laurie

It is good for society to have this introspection.

- Jacques Verges

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

- Jared Diamond

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

- Jason Silva

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

- Jay Samit

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

- Jenna Wortham

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

- Jessica Alba

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

- John Ortberg

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

- Jonathan Sacks

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

- Juliana Hatfield

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

- Kate Middleton

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

- Lauren London

I'm passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues.

- Lily Collins

Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.

- Lizzo

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

- Mae Jemison

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

- Marianne Williamson

I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness.

- Mary Lambert

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

- Matt Taibbi

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

- Michael Shermer

Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.

- Mike White

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.

- Monica Dolan

The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?

- Muhammad Ali

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

- Naomi Judd

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

- Nick McDonell

The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.

- Paul Sparks

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

- Peter Morgan

There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.

- Richard Ben Cramer

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

- Robin Marantz Henig

Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?

- Shashi Tharoor

I am a victim of introspection.

- Sylvia Plath

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

- T. J. Miller

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

- Ted Dwane

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.

- Ted Dwane

A writer needs a life of introspection.

- Tom Robbins

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

- Tucker Carlson

One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.

- Tyler Joseph

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

- William Godwin