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Self-knowledge
«I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| About:
Awareness,
Self-confidence,
Self-control,
Self-knowledge,
Zen
| Keywords:
champion, self awareness
«I know everything except myself»
Author: Francois Villon
| About:
Self-knowledge
«I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.»
«Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Self-love
| Keywords:
admiration, conclusive, evidence
«I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.»
«I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Family,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
grandfather, grandfathers, grandson
«I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Ideas,
Self-knowledge,
Talent
| Keywords:
brought, certainly, combined, combines, criticism, curiosity, dogged, endurance, My ideas, No self, obsession, obsessions, self-criticism, special, talent
«I do not know myself and God forbid that I should»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
forbid
«Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Self-confidence,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
bubble, bubbled, bubble up, bubbling, dig, digging up, digs, dig in, dig into, dig out, dig up, dug, fountain, good and, The Fountain, thou, wilt, wilted, wilting, wilts