Quotes About Reflection

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

There is a glory in a great mistake.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we have the great opportunity to step into who we always wanted to be.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.