Quotes About Introspection

I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.

I saw a bumper sticker once that stayed with me: 'God help me become the person my dog thinks I am.' I don't have the heart for this. Meaning, of course, that I'm the failure.

As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

My morning runs have become one of the only times I have during the week to reflect and take stock.

Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.

I've took stock of things and said, 'Right I've got to think of me.'

I wanted the world when I was 20, and when I took stock at 40 I realised I hadn't come anywhere close to getting it.

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.