Sentence examples for knows himself well from inspiring English sources

Ryan Murphy knows himself well enough, he knows what he likes and he doesn't care what anyone else does.

Board member Mellody Hobson is even clearer: "Howard knows himself well enough to realize that a role in national politics isn't right for him". Yet Schultz refuses to surrender his dream of fixing America.

Mr. Cash knew himself well, and he did not flinch.

Say what you will about the man who became our second President, he knew himself well.

We don't know him well enough – he doesn't know himself well enough – to know if he's dangerous when he becomes an intruder himself.

He should feel comfortable enough to walk around his own city, and he should know himself well enough not to need strategists to tell us who he is.

Shelley, who frequently quoted the Platonic injunction "Know thyself," never knew himself well enough to acknowledge the intolerance and self-righteousness that went hand in hand with his sublime egotism.

This is not meant as a criticism of James, who apparently knew himself well enough to recognize that he was more suited to the surroundings in South Beach than to the searing spotlight of New York.

Stone knew himself well enough to realize that he would never make headlines for statesmanship, nor would he ever be suited to any Washington job above deputy assistant undersecretary for grifting.

Churchill could be monstrous and lovable almost in the same breath, but he seems to have known himself well enough, confiding to a friend that he was "arrogant but not conceited".

Blitzstein, a man of the theater, would have known himself well-served by a maestro who respected and protected the integrity of his notated document as expertly as did Mauceri.