David Brin Quotes

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

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

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

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.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

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

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.