Quotes About Reassessment

We must start from the premise that—in all likelihood—we are already wrong. And not "wrong" in the sense that we are examining questions and coming to incorrect conclusions, because most of our conclusions are reasoned and coherent. The problem is with the questions themselves.

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!...imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended.

I felt my life needed a shake-up.

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

Sometimes you need to step away from the game. I've had to do that in different manners in my career.

This can sound rather grim, but it does have a positive flip-side: It suggests that our negative assessments of other people are less likely than our positive assessments to be correct, and we should give our foes another chance.

Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy.

Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less       important than I thought

When you have gone too far, as I think he did, the only mending is to come home.

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.'

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

It's not giving up to put your current path on indefinite pause.

Not everything I wrote yesterday appeals to me today.