Quotes About Introspection

Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.

Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you'll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.

we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick. To

In Psychological Types, Jung suggested two contrasting ways in which people saw the world. Some people can appreciate reality only through their five senses ("sensing" types), while others wait for internal confirmation of what is true or real, relying on their unconscious. These

A preference for extraversion (seeing life in terms of the external world) or introversion (greater interest in the inner world of ideas) is independent of your preferences for sensing, thinking, intuition, and feeling. You

was obviously in debt to Carl Jung's distinction between introverts and extraverts, he

It's not so much that I am a cynic, I just might take a bit too much pleasure in demonstrating why things aren't as rosy as they seem.

Do not believe everything you think or that you believe.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

It never occurred to me that I'm intimidating.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

Being interviewed is an odd experience for me because I was an actor a long time before anyone ever asked me a question about myself. When I started being interviewed, I definitely felt I was being asked to defend or explain myself.

Watching films I'm in is always a bit odd, especially when I'm watching them for the first time with other people. It's hard not to see my faults.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

I would say the worst period of my life was between 1997 and 2000. I was lost, I was all at odds. I needed a family, I guess.