Top 100 Quotes About Self Awareness
#1. Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.
M. Scott Peck
#2. The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
Vernor Vinge
#3. I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.
Steve Carell
#4. Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
Tariq Ramadan
#5. 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
#6. In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#7. My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.
Osho
#8. Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
Gretchen Rubin
#9. Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.
Sylvia Clare
#10. When leaders lack self-awareness, they doubt themselves; uncertain about their abilities; unclear about the direction to take on each turn, and more...
Assegid Habtewold
#11. Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!
Ibn Ata Allah
#12. Below I describe two examples, one concerning self-awareness and the other culture, both concepts that, whenever mentioned in relation to animals, still send some scholars through the roof. Armchair
Frans De Waal
#13. I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.
Carmen Ejogo
#14. We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.
Michael Helm
#15. Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
#16. There are certain jobs I don't take because I feel no connection to the person. But if somebody is open with me, and honest about their motivations, and has some level of self- awareness, then I'm going to understand them.
Hilary Liftin
#17. The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#18. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.
Stephen Covey
#19. Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
Barnett Newman
#20. Some say that I have self-awareness but no soul, that I am nothing but a machine. This seems un-Platonic as well as unfriendly, but it cannot be discounted as a terrifying possibility. I cannot erase this option simply because I dislike it so much. That too would be un-Platonic.
Jo Walton
#21. The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness.
K.M. Soehnlein
#22. Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.
Paul Davies
#23. Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton
#25. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism. I
Garth Stein
#26. Lincoln's ability to retain his emotional balance in such difficult situations was rooted in actute self-awareness and an enormous capacity to dispel anxiety in constructive ways.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#27. Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
Rollo May
#28. Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.
Kelly McGonigal
#29. 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
#30. Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
Virginia Woolf
#31. Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.
Ruben Papian
#32. A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable ... I hope I have that going forward.
Nick McDonell
#33. 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
#34. We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
Dalai Lama
#35. Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.
Francis Spufford
#36. this posterior firing of maps of the body represents a primary cortical representation and may involve the parietal lobe - a region that may turn out to play an important role in self-awareness and a sense of identity (for further
Daniel J. Siegel
#37. Increase your self-awareness up to the point where you shouldn't depend on the opinions of others about who you truly are...
Assegid Habtewold
#38. I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Billie Jean King
#39. Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.
Noel Carroll
#40. Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.
Joanie Connell
#41. The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to have the self-awareness of a normal adult human. That is certainly one way to be self-aware. It's not the only way.
Gary L. Francione
#42. I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A.E. Van Vogt
#43. Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.
Qiu Miaojin
#44. Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
Garry Kasparov
#45. No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
Frank Herbert
#46. Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
Don DeLillo
#47. Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
Stephen Covey
#48. The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.
Bhikkhu Analayo
#49. Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
Irvin D. Yalom
#50. Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.
Rand Olson
#51. 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
#52. Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change.
Brett Blumenthal
#53. social isolation and lack of self awareness can occur partly because there are simply no words to tell the story.
Onno Van Der Hart
#54. The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.
Sean Covey
#55. Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.
John Milbank
#56. Learning from each mistake requires self-awareness and humility, but it can be one of the biggest keys to reaching your full potential.
Amy Morin
#57. Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
Bill Hybels
#58. The real horror is that when you're busy ruining your life, self-awareness doesn't stop you.
Christopher Ransom
#59. Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0.
Jimmy Fallon
#60. To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.
Garth Stein
#61. Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
Erwin McManus
#62. Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.
Michio Kaku
#63. With self-awareness we can change our inner conversation about what we are feeling and create different outcomes in conversations with others. To create conversations for change we must be able to process ourselves and others through emotions.
Shawn Kent Hayashi
#64. 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
#65. The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.
Humberto Maturana
#66. And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with self-awareness.
Wally Lamb
#67. My goal is to educate you about the effects of stress on the body, creating a level of self-awareness that causes you to stop and ask yourself, Is anyone or anything really worth it? So
Joe Dispenza
#68. In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.
Stephen R. Covey
#69. I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.
Zulay Henao
#71. I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood ...
I was raving, if only to myself.
Robin McKinley
#72. Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.
Michael Persinger
#73. Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
Deepak Chopra
#74. Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.
Toni Sorenson
#75. Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.
Tony Robbins
#76. Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Marianne Williamson
#77. The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.
Vironika Tugaleva
#78. The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.
Vironika Tugaleva
#79. Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom ... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
#80. The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
George Sheehan
#81. Everything with no exception is a choice. The choice can be either conscious or unconscious depending on the level of self-awareness.
The more self-aware we become, the faster we can make our unconscious choices known to us.
Raphael Zernoff
#82. Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.
Steve Carell
#83. Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?
Robert J. Wicks
#84. Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.
Robbie Coltraine
#85. Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.
Bonnie Marcus
#86. Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.
Raisa Gorbacheva
#87. The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.
James Van Praagh
#88. The sweet spot for smart decisions, then, comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness.
Daniel Goleman
#89. "Believe in yourself" - that makes sense. You should believe in yourself - you should believe that you're capable of great things - but you would hope that somebody would have some sort of self-awareness.
Timothy Simons
#90. Scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.
James Carroll
#91. As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!
Assegid Habtewold
#92. The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
Clarence Day
#93. The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. ( ... ) these three skills - self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most - are the foundation for self-control.
Kelly McGonigal
#94. You will practice more self-awareness. People who meditate regularly, overtime they develop a greater awareness of themselves, their actions and emotions.
Amy Young
#95. Greater self-awareness," he'd told Rocky on a night when sleep wouldn't come, "doesn't make a species any happier, pal. If it did, we'd have fewer psychiatrists and barrooms ...
Dean Koontz
#96. Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
Kenny Loggins
#97. The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time ... The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.
Thomas Berry
#98. Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)
Rollo May
#99. Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
Lawrence Bossidy
#100. 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
