Quotes About Introspection

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

It is good for society to have this introspection.