Quotes About Introspection

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Show business got really tainted for me.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

There is an economy in your mind

Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, "Would I want to be my friend???

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

You MUST know You to do YOU!

I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven't said before. You are nothing I haven't felt before.

Turn your car into a monastery.

You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?