Quotes About Reflection

I think I surprise myself.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.

After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

I just surprise myself every day.

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place at all.

Sometimes I am surprised by the kind of roles that are offered to me.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.