Quotes About Reflection

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

Club music taught me so much about myself: having patience or appreciating a different type of way of taking in life. That, to me, is like what 'Off the Wall' is. Or 'I Feel Love' or 'Rock Your Baby' with George McCrae.

The game of golf slows the whole world down and gives you time to think. Inner-city kids could learn a lot about patience.

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

What Mr Rogers was offering to children were lessons we all need in our world right now: patience, kindness, acceptance and true self-reflection.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

I had my nose done four times. I've had a little bit of filler before, a little bit of Botox before. So I have been a patient, not in my own hands, obviously.

I think I learned the value of being more patient with myself.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

I've been woken up by things like the MeToo movement. I didn't realize how much of the patriarchy was ingrained within my spirit.

Playing with my brother on the Patriots would have been amazing, but at the same time I feel like my work as a creator is more important.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.

Sometimes I see patterns in my mind. I dream about them at night. They drive me crazy.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me.