self-awareness Quotes

I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.