Quotes About Reflection

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

Seriously though, most films worth their salt will have something to say about the world we live in. Even 'Avatar' claimed that!

But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

I have found clarity in my head and heart from being a mum.

Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.

We judge everything we do by the Clash and U2.

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

It is not about classical career questions but about questions for your life. Those are the questions that drive you on as a human being.

We don't teach kids how to think anymore. We're getting rid of the classics - high school is all about self-esteem.

A Socrates in every classroom.

After my Clay Guida fight, I went down a bad path, man. It was just not a good path. After my loss to B.J. Penn it just got worse. I got really out of control.

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body.

I started working for my dad - he had his own company in carpet upholstery cleaning. I was doing whatever he said. It was hard work, it made me grow up and realize that it's not what I wanted to do.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

As I get older, I have a clearer sense of what's important to me.