Quotes About Reflection

I was in detention a lot.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Sacks shouldn't be the only thing that determines if you had a good year.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

Spending my 20s in Detroit has been incredible for me.

If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I've become, but that game had so many emotions involved.

The busyness of life can keep you running from one activity to the next. If you never step back to consider whether all those activities are really how you want to spend your time, you could miss out on building the kind of life you want. Devote at least 10 minutes each day to examining the bigger picture in your life.

Over the years, I've become accustomed to the quiet of that morning meal, a time when I devote myself completely to my faith.

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

Before my diagnosis with leukemia, two years ago at the age of 22, I'd always excelled at making resolutions. But I was never as good at keeping them.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way.

I don't have all the answers. I'm just supposed to present what I think is an issue and have dialogue start.

When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue... Why couldn't I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.