Quotes About Introspection

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.

I never was a very good singer.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

I'm no good at being good.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.