Quotes About Introspection

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I think I am lucky enough to be getting this chance also that people want to know about me. I don't want to complain over it.

When I'd watch myself coaching, I'd say, 'Man, I look bad,' but I never felt I didn't have a sense of humor with the team. Maybe I was too over-the-top serious.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

We have to look honestly at ourselves and recognize the positives, the negatives, and the challenges we can overcome.

I think, look, you have to be aware of the language, and you have to be aware a little bit of your own biases if you're going to overcome them.

It is only when you are afraid that you can be courageous. So if you don't overcome any fear, how can you find out who you really are?

I want to overcome obstacles and test myself and find out who I really am.

I am not overconfident.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.

In a way, I'm overly ambitious, selfish in a way. I think because I am so active, I think that's what keeps my brain going and I can bounce things off of each other.

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.