Quotes About Reflection

I pay attention to everything now - the taste of bread, the taste of water.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.

If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006 - at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

I've had some great gigs and had horrible ones. I always look at the horrible ones, and think there's got to be something in this that I can use later in my show. It all pays off in the end.

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

I now go to my dad's grave to read scripts and learn lines. It's the most peaceful place. I go to see him, and it's fantastic.

Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.

I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

I really like walking through Brompton Cemetery. It's really peaceful.