Quotes About Introspection

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

I feel, it is essential to see oneself on-screen so as to be a better judge of one's performance.

I think it's important to spend some time with oneself, and the mountains are a great place to do that. So I go hiking and trekking often.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I'm an only child, and I don't mind being alone.

I think for me, growing up as an only child, I didn't have a lot of people around me or a lot of foreign influences, so growing up, I really kind of got lost in my imagination - for the better.

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

I grew up as an only child.