Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.
Orrin WoodwardTag: talent self-perception leadership
Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.
Laurie FrankelTag: self-perception desire want
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
Edward de BonoTag: perception self-esteem confidence self-perception self-image self-confidence ego acceptance-of-oneself
Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur."
("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.")
[Journal entry, 10 December 1801]
Tag: happiness reality self-perception self-knowledge unhappiness reality-check
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, ‘That’s interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it’s water weight. Maybe it’s my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.’ I know it’s not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat—and definitely without missing a meal.
Jenni SchaeferTag: self-perception eating-disorder recovery body-image
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
Richard RohrTag: humility mistakes sin self-perception
He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.
Stephen R. DonaldsonTag: people self-perception description characterization
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