Quotes About Introspection

Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your Silence. Hovsep kazezian www.Hkazezian.com

When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness.

You are strangers, too, sine nomine, even to yourselves. They

If only I had loved myself more. How profound is that?

When we realize, really get to know what stinkers we are, it takes only a little depression to tip the scales in favor of suicide. - Dr. Walter Freeman (62)

Extraordinary individuals stand out in the extent to which they reflect—often explicitly—on the events of their lives, large as well as small.

If a man makes the world his castle, he does not seek to furnish it.

Do you ask 'Nu' of? Or do you ask, transitively? 'Nu?' he asked. And is it even a question in the accepted sense? 'Nu,' he said. Would that have been better? Nu, meaning how are things with you, but also I know how things are with you.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

For himself, he wanted to impose his values on no one. He wasn't even sure he knew what his values were.

The result of this is a disrespect for the world in general and a foreignness to anything around him that isn't immediately recognizable to his everyday habits. He has even begun to lose perspective on what his own assets and faults are, because he has nothing to measure these things against.

Any scene in which a character is shown waking up in bed or getting into bed is deeply suspect, unless there is someone new in bed with her.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

I stand accused of bringing you more bad than good news. At times, and we are in such a time now, at times in human history, bad is disproportionate to good, and so I own up to the indictment. It's a fact of life, my Canadian brethren, that we cannot always control where the truth comes from, or how bad it turns out to be, or what it reveals about human nature.

What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?

When I returned, I never once walked past the house where my mother, aunt, and I lved together...It was as if the past would judge me. The house would judge me. That merely looking at it would somehow cause me to calibrate my life, and in all aspects of usefulness I would come up short.

Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself.

And half of the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward.

write whatever comes into your head, as fast as you can type, without reference to outlines, notes, data, books or any other aids. The object is to find out what you would like to say, what all your earlier work on the topic or project has already led you to believe.

Jung: we only discover what supports us when everything else we thought supported us doesn't support us anymore.

All great companies have passed through bad years that forced soul-searching and rethinking of priorities. How we deal with them will be the litmus test.

They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.

If you're really honest with yourself, as I have tried to be with myself, along the way in building the company, there has been something we have lost. And it's no one's fault and there's no punishment or blame. Weare what we are—but the question is, What are we going to do about it and how are we going to fix it?