Quotes About Reassessment

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.

I used to be driven, but I pulled over.

the fact that I was dreaming of retirement at the age of 33 was probably an indicator that something had to change. I

When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought.

shared among all of those types of crisis, whatever their cause, is the sense that something important about one's current approach to life isn't working, and that one has to find a new approach.

All the familiar things were getting different meanings.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

I did not work for a year after 'Margarita With a Straw'.

When the federal government gets around to cleaning up their lists, I am sure we'll take another look at the Lowey amendment. But until then, this effort will continue to have bipartisan opposition.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

Besides, my old opinions—at least, the greater part of them—are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, 'I want some other stuff.' So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.

Seven pounds, nine shillings and sixpence turned out to be the value they'd put on Arthur's life. I sat alone at the kitchen table, and I think that was the moment I knew I'd never see my husband again.

This wasn't the life she signed up for.

Youth is a good time to go back to.

Only when things are reread, reexamined, revisited, are they understood: letters, photos, words in dictionaries.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life..."

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.

After losing you job, you have to sit, relax and discover yourself

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.

I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

There are many times when I sit back and try to analyse the things that I could have done differently.

To end its march of folly, Pakistan needs to reassess its core beliefs about a religion-based polity, reconsider the notion of permanent conflict with its larger neighbour, recreate political institutions to reflect its ethnic diversity and rebuild its economy without reliance on the largesse of others. Only then would it be able to reliably get rid of the spectre of failure or fragility and low international standing by all non-military benchmarks.