Quotes About Self-analysis

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

because then the sum of experiences, of suffering, of self-analysis and soul-struggle have mellowed the individual and he can aid because he speaks and moves out of a ripe, conscious wisdom—not through precepts, ideas, formulas.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

Rumination is the coin of my realm. Interiority breeds interiority.

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.

It is introspective, and I want to introspect.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

Set any one to talk about himself, instead of about other people, and you will have a seam of the precious mental metal opened up to you at once; only ore, most likely, that needs much smelting and refining; or it may be, not gold at all, but a metal which your mental alchemy may turn into gold.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I am worried self analysis will lead to spiritual paralysis

I am not a man who enjoys such insights into his own character.

I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to describe the harm that it has done, and asks to be pitied at the end of its recital, and, as it patrols with impunity among the ruins for which it is responsible, gives to self-analysis the time which should be given to repentance.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I'm a person who looks at myself, and after every game, I like to reflect on my performance, not just the team.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

I'm hardest on myself. I'm my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.