Quotes About Introspection

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

I work from the inside out.

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

I'm very good at being out of work.

My very best advice to fellas: work from the outside in.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.