Quotes About Introspection

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

Larry: i don't really get this fascination that people have with the ocean Cheryl: no? Larry: i dunno. i mean i stare at it for ten minutes and i go okay i get it Cheryl: don't you feel calmer? Larry: i feel aggravated that i am missing what other people are getting.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

That last part wasn't true, and he sort of knew it, but if you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to?

IF YOU GUYS KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT WOMEN, HOW COME YOU'RE HERE AT LIKE THE GAS 'N' SIP ON A SATURDAY NIGHT COMPLETELY ALONE DRINKING BEERS WITH NO WOMEN ANYWHERE? LLOYD DOBLER

I'd never even considered my nipples before, but I made a quick mental note to consider them later.

I don't judge the quality of my decisions by the outcome

Is this a good time to consider the habits of very effective people?' (Emperor Tai-Tsung, newly crowned) 'Ahem'.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

I didn't learn anything while I was talking.

I never learned anything when I was talking.

My first rule of conversation is this: I never learn a thing while I'm talking. I realize every morning that nothing I say today will teach me anything, so if I'm going to learn a lot today, I'll have to do it by listening. As

Quick! what's the Proust line? – that we're attracted to those people who have qualities we hate in ourselves?

Have you listened to your heart?

We were the generation psychoanalysts tried to change.

Everybody knows what they want. They just won't examine their behavior closely enough and see what it means.

There is only one Long Day's Journey into Night. There is only one Death of a Salesman

I set out to make sense of my life. And I found out that one's life, particularly after one has written about it, doesn't make sense. Life doesn't make sense.

Isn't it amazing how a kid can come out of all that analyzing everything incessantly down to the most infinitesimal neurosis and still be all alone?

The naked human body is the grave in blossom: it is both Sad & instructive.

It is good to sit a little longer than you want to so you see the part of your mind that resists practice

Actually, however, all the wisdom we need is inside us, where this epic drama is taking place.

I have to sound critical just to let people know there is more to life than they have realized.