Quotes About Self-examination

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Each person should examine his own work … not in respect to someone else. For each person will have to carry his own load. Galatians 6:4–5

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

I am determined and resigned to being self-conscious.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between you and the devil, or between you and the dictator, or between you and the kind man.

Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others."21

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear.

Here is where the modern cult of love enters: it is the main way in which we test ourselves for strength of feeling, and find ourselves deficient.

Being self-conscious. Treating one's self as an other. Supervising oneself.

You think he belonged to the type who can't live with themselves any more." "What a good description! Yes. The kind who want something badly, and then discover that the price they have paid for it is too high.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Donde el entendimiento no ve más allá de uno mismo

It was perturbing to look long at your reflection: to realise that all the time you were there in the world, visible, undeniable

Some people have to carry a mirror and watch themselves living to feel they're alive at all.

Hay un momento en la vida en que debemos buscar dentro de nosotros para decidir.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.