Quotes About Introspection

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing.

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

You can get a million different opinions from different people, but I always like to watch myself to see what I did and how I performed because the best critic is yourself.

I don't really talk that much. I just watch and observe.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.