Quotes About Self-examination

Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country?

You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I'm very hypercritical of myself.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

There's a way that mirrors can be portals towards vanity, but there are also ways they can be portals towards self-reflection and understanding.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Have we gotten too full of ourselves? Possibly.

I consistently go back to myself: What am I looking for or wanting to wear myself, right now, that I don't already have? I always figure if I'm looking for it, a lot of guys are.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

We all have those moments when you're sitting in your feelings and you're sitting in your thoughts and you're taking in what your current situation is.

Don't start arguments. They are futile and take us away from our purpose. As Yeats noted, your important arguments are with yourself. If you don't agree with me, don't listen. Think about something else.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6 Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6 Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. I: The Inward Disciplines

If today people sit and meditate only one or two hours, looking only at their own egos, and call this reflection, how can anything come of it?

Yes, me." She made a claw of her hand and clutched at her collarbone. "Me. Me. Me. Oh, you poor, self-deluded—Look at you! Look at you, and tell me how by any stretch"—she tossed her head, and the grin of her teeth glistened white in the moonlight—"by any stretch of the imagination you can call yourself a man!

have time to take out your soul and look at it.

If any one shall ask in the meantime, who I am that so boldly censure others, have I no faults? Yes, more than thou hast, whatsoever thou art.