Quotes About Introspection

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.