Quotes About Introspection

I just hate talking about myself.

My job gives me the permission to ask really great questions, like, 'Are you sure you're not pissed at him?' or, 'Is the eating really about food, or does it have something to do with your mother?' or, 'How is your sex life? I mean, I know we're here talking about your job, but I can tell this has to do with your sex life.'

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.

My wife says I don't listen when she talks. But when people talk, I'm in my own world. I think - always thinking.

I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.

What everybody talks about is their own problem, to be honest with you.

Initially, I was worried about playing Hansa, because Hansa is someone who talks a lot but does nothing. But after I started playing the character, it was such a relief.

Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank in the attic or in the dog's kennel. I was quite a strange child.

And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.ï¾  There is little reason that one can see why it should not have happened to her five years earlier, or even five later; and none, why it should have come that particular afternoon.ï¾ 

When you write a poem these relations must reverse themselves. That is, the relation of the words to the subject must weaken and the relation of the words to the writer (you) must take on strength.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

In truth, the writer's problems are usually psychological, like everyone else's.

Don't start arguments. They are futile and take us away from our purpose. As Yeats noted, your important arguments are with yourself. If you don't agree with me, don't listen. Think about something else.

Self-acceptance through writing is no different than self-acceptance through time.

In order for the psychic capacity to work, you must be able to still the interfering thoughts of your conscious mind and turn inwardly. It is very important for you to be able to let go of your restless thoughts, your hopes, dreams, desires, and frustrations. Ideally, when the mind is completely stilled, you should be in such an objective, passive state of mind that you are no longer even conscious that you have a body - almost a prayerful attitude.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.