Quotes About Introspection

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide.

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it. Poetry is meditative. It's reflective.

You've got to be harsh on yourself because it is the only way you are going to get better by studying those situations where you may have fallen short.

You always compare yourself, on the pitch or in general life, and you can always learn. Youve obviously got to do a bit of studying yourself as well.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

Some of the stuff that I say on 'License to Ill,' I say some real dumb stuff.

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.