Quotes About Reflection

I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

It is always good to take a break and then come back with more strength. You can access things from a different point of view.

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

Some critics are pointless - but many can offer me lessons.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

When a story or part of a story comes to me, I turn it over in my mind a long time before starting to write. I might make notes or take long drives or who knows what. By the time I give myself permission to write, I know certain things, though not everything. I know where the story is headed, and I know certain crucial points along the way.

A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that it's just working itself out. You have to let it do it.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.