Quotes About Reflection

If you're based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages everywhere. On a bad day, returning to Germany brings back all kinds of spectres from the past.

We don't ever want to be complacent, and it's good to look back and see places you can improve. That's a good mentality to have.

I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.

I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

I would never ever forget my roots. I am always going back. Sometimes if I am driving, I find myself taking different routes, going down the old places I used to go. My mum is still in the house I grew up in.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

There's a plain girl in everybody.

Things that I had created or morphed into, I almost became. I felt like a broken man having to go back to plain old Matt Hardy in many ways.

The old Logan was plain old insensitive.

I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

I have never decided on how to plan my career moves.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

That retirement plan I had, getting out by 32, may still be the case even though at the minute it's in the back of my mind. It's important to get out at the right time.

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

Being on the plane is my catch-up time. I write thank-you notes. I read. I write stand-up jokes.