Quotes About Reflection

Employ hindsight but humbly, remembering that life and death decisions are made by leaders in real-time, and not by historians in retrospect.

pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!

The investigator is an interpreter (second order) of the interpretations people have already given to their lives (first order).

It's important that you identify what the best things are in your life. The things that do more than just get you through the day. The things that make you want the next day to come. And once you identify those things, it's critical that you nurture them and keep them strong.

In order to slip from beneath the crushing weight of future thoughts, I adopted a technique of focusing solely on the moment I was living. In itself, removed from the time line that stretched forward and backward from the present, no single moment was that bad.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

I saw 'Taxi Driver ' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

People don't realize that if they began working in their twenties and retire at age sixty that they may spend as much time in retirement as they did working.

Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.

We sometimes enjoy people's presence most when we register their absence.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of eath's greenings. Now, think.

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death.

it was like '65 or '68 again

oh candlelight upon your face, oh sad shadow of screen across your breast, oh love of life in my shadow— these, and the winter nights beside you, I remember and forget.

There, by that water which is also beyond, two black wings turn in their mirror, the mirror the tree makes above them, and then break with the incomplete torture of the shade descending.

Think of the letters which have placed you nowhere, have given you something lonely, and the restraint of all anger at loneliness.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

It's a lesson in life—don't look back, you'll trip over.

Girls don't come to the Barbizon for answers, Laura... They come to find out what questions they need to be asking.

she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster," as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. "And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Walter

True friends define each other.