Understanding Myself Quotes:

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Journal, 1922

topic: Understanding, Want, Superficial, Understanding Myself

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Math, Computer, Theory, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics By Mathematicians

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Journal, 1922

topic: Encouraging, Want, Becoming, Understanding Myself

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

- Pam Dawber

topic: Past, Worry, People, Understanding Myself

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (1956). “Stories. Selected,”

topic: Mean, Sea, Breathing, Breathing Life, Understanding Myself

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

- Shakira

topic: Caring, Talking, Understanding, Talking To Someone, Understanding Myself

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

- Ang Lee

topic: Understanding, World, Way, Understanding Myself

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

topic: Reading, Book, Fire, Being A Parent, Understanding Myself

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

- Joe Rogan

topic: People, Understanding, Growth, Understanding Myself

I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on creating a voice out of the music, then I might be able to reach something more profound.

- Arca

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Hard Times, Voice, Creating, Vocal Music, Understanding Myself