Quotes About Introspection

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

I went out with a 40-year-old when I was 19, and since then, I don't really think much about numbers meaning anything. But I do feel like maybe I've neglected to work on developing emotionally and taking care of myself.

I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.

We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Everyone should nurture the ability to laugh at themselves.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.

I'm not always nuts, you can't be nuts 100 per cent of the time, I don't even think I'm nuts.

I'm honest, at the end of the day - I'm obese, but I'm not obtuse.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

I'm not very good at being objective about myself.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.