Quotes About Introspection

Jamie, have you ever done something for yourself alone—not with any thought of anyone else?

Now, I am not basically a nice person. I _am_ snice, arrogant, and short-tempered. I try to overcome these things, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

You invent yourself," I said softly, to the shadows inside the hair that had fallen over my face. "You look at other women—or men; you try on their lives for size. You take what you can use, and you look inside yourself for what you can't find elsewhere. And always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you wonder if you're doing it right.

Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

My job is to constantly assess how I look.

Before I go to bed, sometimes I'll just sit outside and philosophically assess the day.

At the end of every season, I try to assess what I did well and what I didn't do well.

I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

We are all atheists.

I'm not the best athlete.

I am one of those athletes who is very hard on myself.

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I think you're always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, 'All right, at least I know that now!'

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.