Quotes About Introspection

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it's what comes with a move that I've made. I've just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.

When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

I once nodded off during one of my own concerts. While I was playing.

For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, art, everything. I read a book alone, so why wouldn't I listen to music alone?

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

I just came to the conclusion that I'm going to fight until I can't, and that's it. I'll know when that is. I'll be honest with myself.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.