2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

Watson, there are those rare people who elicit behaviour from us that others may not. Let me suggest that you were one man on the battlefield, another with your patients, a third altogether with Mary and perhaps a fourth in my company, for example?''No, Holmes. I am always myself. Well, perhaps I smoke less around Mary.'He smiled at this.'But whatever the situation, I try always to be the best man I can be.

I have more flaws, more faults and more sins than common sense can comprehend; and the condescension in this sentence 'consequents' in more to end.

During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and problems, which tint our consciousness a shade of grey. Talking and thinking about peak experiences makes us realize how lucky we are, and that we can dispense with the caution and constraint. It is like realizing that you have more money in the bank than you thought.

The acquisition of self awareness does not come with a return policy.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Useful knowledge oftentimes comes unsolicited by distilling survival techniques from personal forays that end infamously.

How do I avoid dullness, folly, and gross acts of excess? How do I distinguish cogent acts of survival from random acts of inanity? How does a person hold in equipoise two variant perspectives at once?

You're the best thing that's ever happened to you.

This guy is not Michael or Wayne anymore... he's lost the only person who took care of him when everybody else threw him under the dirt... he`s not like his old self and won't be unless we do exactly as he says" said Elena.