Quotes About Introspection

Part of knowing who you are is knowing who you're not.

By focusing inward on yourself as a writer instead of outward on what you think readers will want to read, you'll end up creating the best and most original work, and that one-in-a-thousand person who happens to love it will end up finding their way to you.

Remember Who You Are

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN

Dude, are you turning into the bald fat man in the red BMW convertible?

What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Think for yourself while being radically open-minded." Ray Dalio

Question Cal Suggests Asking People More Often "What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), de Carol Tavris y Elliot Aronson.

The disease of our times is that we live on the surface.

Everyone is interesting. If you're ever bored in a conversation, the problem's with you, not the other person.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain.

Avoid compulsively making things worse.

three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?

job descriptions as self-descriptions.

Always ask: What am I missing? And listen to the answer.

I was back in the prison of all of the things that hold me back, but I could see that the door was locked from the inside.

Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want? How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?

A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn't? —DON MARQUIS I

a Man Thinketh (James Allen), Man's Search for Meaning

The lesson: Rather than striving to be superhuman, I would aspire to be less "super" and more "human.

Don't believe everything you think." –BJ Miller, MD

create yourself, instead of seeking to discover yourself.