Quotes About Introspection

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

I'm taking time to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do next. In this line of work, you become so defined by your job.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.