Quotes About Introspection

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened — I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

We need literature because we wouldn't fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

You have to think about yourself and think about where you are and if you're happy. If you feel good and you feel happy, then that's the path you should be on.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.