Quotes About Introspection

When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.

Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.

of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any

Jobs knew that he was not ready to run the company himself, even though there was a part of him that wanted to try. Despite his arrogance, he could be self-aware. Markkula agreed; he told Jobs that he was still a bit too rough-edged and immature to be Apple's president. So they launched a search for someone from the outside.

Who said your job was to think, spring-wiener?

Turing did have a tendency toward being a loner. His homosexuality made him feel like an outsider at times; he lived alone and avoided deep personal commitments.

In the first few pages, I was confronted with my family, my anecdotes, my things, my thoughts, myself in the character Jane

wanted instead to take a walk so that we could

After you interact with Ginevra de' Benci long enough, what at first seem like a vacant face and distant stare begin to appear suffused with a haunting tinge of emotion. She seems pensive and ruminating, perhaps about her marriage or the departure of Bembo, or because of some deeper mystery. Her life was sad; she was sickly and remained childless. But she also had an inner intensity. She wrote poetry, one line of which survives: "I ask your forgiveness; I am a mountain tiger.

Leonardo fell into that category. He was born out of wedlock, gay, left-handed, a vegetarian, and was easily distracted, and that helped instill a sense of wonder at how he fit into this world.

I very rarely think in words at all

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

At Boston Macworld, as Gates discusses their deal: "That was my worst and stupidest staging event ever. It made me look small.

frequented many parlors of the mind. But he shied away from the inner chambers of the heart.

The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory." What

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults 

we others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment

Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

Like most drunks he thought that if he took longer to think he'd come up with the thoughts of a sober man.