Quotes About Reflection

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

The most effective mirror is definitely an previous good friend.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s.

From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

Be grateful for every thing good and bad that comes to you. For all things have contributed to your advancement.

I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody.