Self Awareness Quotes - Page 9

• We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  Joko Beck

  Blessing, Thinking, Errors

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• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Self, Scary

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.

  Ben Lerner

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Tao Lin, www.believermag.com. 2014.

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Acceptance

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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

  Annie Lennox

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  "The world has become more sexualised" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.

  Matthew Fox

  Spiritual, Healing, Self

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• Over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't. And I observe a lot. I see a lot around me. And over time you also get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

  Kofi Annan

  Men, Self, Flare Up

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• Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Mean, Development And Growth

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• A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• 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

  Self, Years, Looks

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• Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.

  Deane Juhan

  Self, Hands, Medicine

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• It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wonder, Realizing

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Depth, Analysis

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

  Robert Anthony

  Getting What You Want, Levels, Changing Your Life

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.60, Morgan James Publishing

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• If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

  Kathleen Norris

  Giving, Feelings, Lucky

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• There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has done great things. I think we have to have the self-awareness to recognize that the world is a very, very big place, that we could be a force for good things in the world, but we have to have the humility to recognize that sometimes even when we think we're acting from the best of motives our own idealism can be infected by self-interest. Other people in other countries can see it sometimes better than we can.

  Peter Beinart

  Country, Believe, Humility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Self, Would Be, World

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Self, America

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Self, Subjectivity, Awareness

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• So 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

  Girl, Couple, Rap

  "Lizzo’s Big Moment". Interview with Lea Weatherby, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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• It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Echoes, Self

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• Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Self, Support

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.233, Random House

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• Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

  Michio Kaku

  Self, Degrees, Robots

  Michio Kaku (2011). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.37, Anchor

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