Self Awareness Quotes - Page 11

• When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

  Merrill Markoe

  Self, Awareness, Transparency

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Identity, Slavery

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.6

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• They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Self, Enlightenment

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• Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Self, Forever, Treasure

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Dresses

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• With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Powerful, Book, Self

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• If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sad, Self, Validation

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• Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Quitting, Awareness, Gifted

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• I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

  Criss Jami

  Self, Contentment, Taught

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• "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

  Believe, Self, Awareness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

  Anthony de Mello

  Giving, Awareness

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

  Jose Marti

  Kings, Men, Worst Enemy

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

  Roger Penrose

  Dog, Strong, Zoos

  "The Emperor's New Mind". Book by Roger Penrose, 1989.

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• 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

  Adversity, Exercise, Men

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• Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of self-awareness alone rest all our hopes for a new politics, a new society, a revitalized life. If we do not genuinely know ourselves, the void will now, at last, surely rise up to meet us.

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Self, Foundation

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

  Steve Martin

  Self, Advice, Anecdotes

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• A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Animal, Self, Mobility

  "General systems theory - the skeleton of science". Kenneth E. Boulding, Management Science, Volume 2, No. 3 (pp. 200-201), April 1956.

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• The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

  Jo Coudert

  Confidence, Quiet Moments, Self

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• Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Self, People, Growth

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• But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

  Peter Watts

  Self, Brain, Doe

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

  Dov Davidoff

  Self, Names, Black

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• China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

  Ma Jian

  Writing, Responsibility, Self

  "Home truths from the exile". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2004.

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• We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Self

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• There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Buddhism, Reflection

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• 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

  New York, Self, Robots

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