Quotes About Reflection

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes.

Inside of you, God plants His dream for your life. It is up to you to seek it, find it, and fulfill it. Don't cheat yourself out of His best for you life by allowing your daily routines to overcome His great purpose for you. It will take courage to pursue His calling. It will stretch you beyond reason. Reflect on the feeling that will wash over you when you finally arrive at the destination you have always dreamed about but hardly dared hope for.

Instead of writing down what you're going to do (chances are you've been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it doesn't make you any better at doing them), write down at the end of the day what you did do that day.

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

No, this time I needed to sit down and start carefully, methodically, systematically sorting through the mixed up pieces of my shattered life.

you've reached a place where many years of simple errors in judgment have compounded over time, and you're feeling it.

The power of momentum: steady wins the race. The power of completion: clear out your undones and incompletes. The power of reflection: facing the man or woman in the mirror. The power of celebration: catch yourself doing something right.

evaluate if we've built what we envisioned at the quality level we hoped for and in the timeframe we planned. Do this in a team product review and reflection.

People who only consider current thought gain information at the expense of wisdom.

Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.

Every alcoholic who has stopped drinking can remember the last time he got drunk. For me, it was the night I drank so much Crown Royal my scrotum turned into a purple pouch with a gold-tasseled drawstring.

looked watery, like it had suddenly filled

I took a couple of deep breaths, my heart finally setting back into my chase.

She was sitting in a beach chair, facing the lit-up buildings across the water.

If you really want to shoot me, go ahead, but shooting your driver is one of the stupidest possible ways anybody could ever die.

It didn't consume his every waking thought- that would be a sign of criminal insanity- but he figured he thought about it maybe a dozen or so times a day.

You should be more careful." "I'm considering that. I've heard good things about that lifestyle.

learning how to disappear is the best way I've found to make my true self visible to myself and others.

If you were me, which I am,

I believe that poetry came into existence because people needed it—if it were easy to write down and record things without poetry, we wouldn't have needed poetry. But for some reason we did.

way counselors would shut someone down when they started arguing that they didn't have to listen, they were going to do it their own way. The counselors would point out that "Your best thinking is what put you here.

Don't we want more than anything to make something that reflects who we are and how we feel honestly enough that someone else might feel seen or acknowledged, and less alone?

I find it's almost impossible to put two words together and not find at least some meaning. We're conditioned to look for patterns and identify mysteries to solve much more than we are designed to dictate what we're searching for. I recommend allowing that natural curiosity and our sense-making brains to do their thing.

Sometimes it can take me a while to relearn my own songs, but I've gotten better over the years at keeping a record of the tunings I'm playing in and/or capo positions. But there are some songs from long ago that I've never been able to figure out. Songs that will never be finished