Quotes About Introspection

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

I consider myself a little weak.

If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

I'm an introvert on the Myers-Briggs. I've got to have time by myself to recharge. My philosophy is sort of that humans are weak, frail, imperfect, and generally kind of bad, but every day I meet somebody who's good, and that inspires me.

I used to consider myself weak.

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.

I don't mind if my performances get dissected and people criticise what I've done on the pitch. They can talk about my game 24/7 for all I care. And a lot of those opinions and criticisms may actually be right. So I don't mind that.

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Pitching, if you have a bad start, a lot of the blame is put on you and then you have to sit around and think about it all week. And the same thing with kicking. You either make it or miss and no one is going to make excuses for you. The mentalities of the two are very comparable.

If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.

I like dark places.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.