Quotes About Introspection

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

All good work requires self-revelation.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.

Let us begin in earnest to work out our salvation, for no one will do it for us, since even He Himself, Who made us without ourselves, will not save us without ourselves.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.