Quotes About Reflection

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

I got a little bit pleased with myself. I didn't buy a Rolls-Royce or anything like that but I didn't see my biological family for a while. I was getting a bit self-important and they told me. They dragged me back.

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

I was very pleased with the way that the show ended creatively and personally. It just feels like we've completed the piece. And now to be able to step back a little bit and look at it from beginning to end, I feel good about the complete story that is 'Battlestar Galactica.'

I'm very pleased with how far I've come, and I see my injuries and my scars and all my buddies and everybody that was at Walter Reid with me, you know I see it almost as a form of character.

God, I hate the whole ladette thing. The more distance I get and look back at my party days, the more I'm kinda pleased I did it because it's the last thing I'd want to do now.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.