Quotes About Reflection

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

I was concerned about them. I mean, it feels good but I was concerned about them.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.