Quotes About Introspection

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?