Quotes About Introspection

Has anyone been corrupted or defiled?" "Since the age of twelve," West said. "I wasn't asking you, I was asking the girls." "Not yet," Cassandra replied cheerfully.

I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.

I've lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.

The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

'Take Me Apart' doesn't feel cohesive in a singular way but in a varied way. You can fixate on individual songs, and there are references from all over the place: Anita Baker to Bjork. I wanted to show all the facets of myself.

For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.

What does it mean to dance? What does it mean to commit a crime? What does it mean to be anxious? What does it mean to tell a joke? The great thing about the French is that they have thought about these subjects in a great variety of ways and are a very articulate people.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome.