Quotes About Introspection

As Queen Elizabeth II said after her annus horribilis: "There can be no doubt that criticism is good for people and institutions . . . but scrutiny can be just as effective if it is made with a touch of gentleness, good humor, and understanding.

Don't you understand? The answer is inside each of you! Don't follow anyone else! Be your own leader! Lead yourselves!

Seriously, why do we stay in this state?" Sean asked.

And here's how I rationalize my rationalizing. God gave us the ability to rationalize so we can stomach all the horrible things we're required to do every day just to survive the concrete jungle.

First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you're living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of frilly throw pillows, experiencing the frequency of sex that can only be charted by Halley's Comet. and you're wondering: How did I get here?

Maybe she has no idea what happened to us, even if we're alive or dead. Look at your life.

I know I can't make that throw. I'm taking myself out of the game.

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

There's no question I'm responsible for some of the plays and some of the games we haven't won. I'm not going to shy away from that.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

No-one but me gets into my head.

You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

I'm nobody, who are you?

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I already know what people are going to say about me, and judge me for the decisions that I'm making, and I'm going to be the one who has to deal with that, and nobody else. And that's a lot.