Quotes About Reassessment

Several times in his life he had felt an intense desire to start over, to somehow turn back the clock of his life to a point where he might, if he were careful, avoid the many mistakes he had made the first time around.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

As Joseph Campbell wrote about middle age, 'There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

Shortly after Sarah died, I started reevaluating what I was spending time on. The push-and-pull games with Jason now seemed childish, and I felt like God wanted me to make space for bigger things.

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

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The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discovered by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meanings re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations.

The first step in planning is to ask of any activity, any product, any process or market, 'If we were not committed to it today, would we go into it?' If the answer is no, one says, 'How can we get out—fast?

Wie Annie Schmidt altijd als lief en aardig heeft ervaren, zal zijn mening grondig moeten herzien.

This crisis had forced me to confront what was most important to me, rather than what I was conditioned to want, or perhaps what I had conditioned myself to want.

History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.

I saw 'Fifth Element' once when it first came out and never thought much of it.

After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is. -Lily Francone

It is in your power to review your life, to look at things you saw before, but from another point of view

If today were your final day of this life, would those things causing you stress still do so?

Life had proved a blind alley, with a muck heap at the end of it, and he must cut back and start again.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.