Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

I've always been a very self-aware person.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.