Quotes About Introspection

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

I always been a know-it-all and I think I've learned to have more of an open mind.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

Acting opened me up.

I was a very closed person before, and I wouldn't say how I felt about things, and now I've kind of opened myself up. And it's scary.

I have had my eyes opened to a different side to me. I'm a much happier person. There was always this Jekyll and Hyde thing with me.

Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary. There needs to be consideration of other people's feelings.

There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.

I've become more comfortable with opening up.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

I'm better not operating at center stage.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.