Quotes About Reflection

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

Retiring was very tough, it's tough at the best of times. Nothing can prepare you for it.

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

Ain't no worst part about retiring! Believe me.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

I don't mind going out to do my shows but I can still retreat back into my own private world, you know? And that is very key.

As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.

I return to the stage time and again to see if I am worth anything.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

I went from following people to being on my own. Once I was on my own, I watched people start liking me, and I watched people stop liking me. Everything was supposed happen. It was all supposed to reveal itself.

Every game reveals exactly where you are. We should have a good understanding after every game why we either won or lost that game.

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

Know not to revere human things too much.

My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.