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Quotes About Introspection

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.
~ Kelly Reichardt
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
~ Sophie Swetchine
My soul is my guru; my experience is my guru.
~ Kumar Pallana
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
~ Terence McKenna
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.
~ Unknown
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.
~ Mary McCarthy
It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.
~ Melissa Febos
I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.
~ Michael Silverblatt
I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
~ Natalie Portman
The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.
~ Nick Laird
the best woman is beautiful inside, most forget that the outside is temporary, but it makes most men blind without they thinking what will happen in future.
~ Jan Jansen
PS…… confused from where you should start planning……. !! Well, start from who you are, where you are and how you are.
~ Sameh Elsayed
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
~ Pythagoras
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
~ Alberto Giacometti
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
~ John Wooden
Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
~ Nicole Krauss, Great House
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.
~ Jo Coudert
As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
~ Marianne Williamson