Quotes About Introspection

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

The only way we'll ever know what it's like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That's where home is.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

How do I work? I grope.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

The quiet people just do their work.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

A work of art is a confession.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

Are you outside or inside the work­? You don't really know.