Quotes About Self-analysis

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

I am self-critical and always have been.

My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I will be the clinician of my own pathology.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Investigation in our own life is far more rewarding than investigating life of other's.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

A fearless honesty should characterize both our self-analysis-where we are now-and our pursuit of truth.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

I was examining my thoughts. I saw they had other forms. I was measuring my emotions. I found their close borders. I was testing my bodily movements. I determined their simple significance. I was losing my benevolence. I have no more concentration. Those who guess will guess. I have nothing left to guess.

There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

For I am nothing if not critical.

What would be the point of reproaching someone who was incapable of self-analysis, especially with so many years to make up for?

The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.

I'm my own worst critic.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

I'm probably my biggest critic.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.