Quotes About Reflection

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.

Songwriters, we're always looking for new concepts, fresh concepts, and there are only so many ways you can talk about partying, really.

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.

Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.

The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

I think Australia is pretty much living the last day on Earth in a lot of ways.

I took a break to take care of a lot of stuff that I'd let go by the wayside for decades.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

We cannot hide from history.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.