Quotes About Introspection

These felt very much like last moments.

You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.

I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind.

What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might claim this a meaningless question: that we are nothing without our consciousness.When it rests so do we" -Railsea by China Mieville

The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Take a second look... It costs you nothing.

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

?ôi khi ch? c?n nhìn vào l?ng m?t ng??i ta ?ã có th? ?oán bi?t ngay ???c tâm tr?ng h? ra sao, có nh?ng c?m xúc gì ?ang di?n ra trong lòng h?

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Nobody can teach me who I am.

weaknesses—the tendency to get lost in analysis.

What have you failed at this week?

In the identity model3 of decision making, we essentially ask ourselves three questions when we have a decision to make: Who am I? What kind of situation is this? What would someone like me do in this situation?

self-evaluation involves interpretation, and that's where the Elephant intrudes.

To be clear, it's not so much that you're a brilliant predictor; it's that he's a lousy self-evaluator. We're all lousy self-evaluators.

Learn to recognize your own scripts. Play with them, poke at them, disrupt them.

Self-understanding comes slowly. One of the few ways to accelerate it—to experience more crystallizing moments—is to stretch for insight.

The Rider has to be jarred out of introspection, out of analysis. He needs a script that explains how to act, and that's why the successes we've seen have involved such crisp direction.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

I found the only time I had to shut down—to become mindful of nothing more than the present moment—was whenever I was peeing.

I'd go into the bathroom, pee, close my eyes, and try to find a mental black dot. Then I'd float through that black dot for almost sixty seconds and be in nothing. I'd come out of the bathroom thinking how perfect I felt.