Self Aware

Well, the term "self-aware" is very touchy and controversial, but that's the direction we are heading. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts. ❋ Chuck Klosterman (2009)

The human pioneers who fled earth and established the colonies were non self-aware Cylons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her writing is searingly honest, brutally revealing, and wickedly self-aware. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault recalled that the ancient Greeks sought: "to make their lives an oeuvre that carries certain aesthetic values" He had no fears that a self-aware individual would withdraw from outward social responsibilities, but would "be able to conduct himself properly in relation to others and for others." ❋ Brian D. Cohen (2011)

You know how the movie "The Secret" and these new-age spiritual blogs are always telling you to manifest by writing down an actual list of the qualities you're looking for in a mate: good looking, intelligent, successful in career, funny, warm-hearted, self-aware, an adventurer, etc.? ❋ MeiMei Fox (2012)

But be self-aware: if the alternative view never wins people will stop expressing it. ❋ Bernie Bulkin (2012)

Playing the super-posh, pig-headed JP in Fresh Meat might shift perceptions, purely because it allows Whitehall to act as obnoxiously as possible; even his fiercest critics will have to concede that Whitehall is a little more self-aware than they thought. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Charles Barkley returned to host Saturday Night Live for the third time this weekend, and he kicked things off with a self-aware opening monologue that featured more jokes about himself than anyone else. ❋ Unknown (2012)