Quotes About Introspection

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

Maybe if I point to my brain it will work.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one's being to take over the work from time to time.

Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

In football, if you have a big break after a disappointment you can stew on things, and that hurts you.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.