Quotes About Introspection

I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

I am very observant of people's character.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly excelled at. But at home, I was so quiet with my family, which taught me to be really observant.

I act by observation.

You know, like, real paying attention and real observation and deep thought and deep consideration can be a bit, you know, miserable-making.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.

I am an observant. I like to observe people.

When I walk around, I look at people and observe people.

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

What makes characters so interesting when you're an actor or a dancer is to watch and observe how people walk and move and speak. Are they cat-like? Are they walrus-like? Why does that person bother me, and why do I think they are the way they are?

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

I like to observe others a lot.

You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.