Quotes About Introspection

Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.

Words are the visible clothes that our invisible thoughts wear."—IKE REIGHARD

Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses."—ZIG ZIGLAR

Two things to remember in life: "Take care of your thoughts when you're alone", and "Take care of your words when you're with people.

Dac? trebuie s? ne motiv?m noi înÈ™ine, trebuie s? înfrunt?m, cu onestitate, adevaratele motive pentru care facem lucrurile pe care le facem.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

It was one of those times when you can feel the air in a room. Everything stood still. I can remember the T-shirt I was wearing and the bag I was carrying. I don't think I breathed for 15 minutes. It was a devastating moment. They said they wanted me to experience more things. OK. I began contemplating things. Maybe I should take LSD or become a hooker. I left Juilliard and was just meandering and drifting for a while. Thank God I had support from my family and close friends. Bad times.

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

Don't you love my idealism? My hypocrisy? My willingness to sound as loving and naive as possible? At least I know that I don't know anything at all. I can admit it. Can you? Can you look yourself in the mirror in the morning and admit that you are no different from every other bundle of bones on this planet? And maybe the only things that make you different are your hands, the way you touch things, and what happens to them.

if you take off your clothes, you will find more clothes.

George is essentially a very good person'" Joan said, "But that is one of those meaningless sentences. What is a good person? Under the worst of circumstances, who can say what we would do? For all we know, we might be the worst people on earth.

If this were a chapter in your memoir, wouldn't future you want you to go?

Od dawna ju? nie mam tych z?udzie?, ?e jestem sob?! Piotr wykona? gest pob?a?liwy, ale Jakub nie da? sobie przerwa?. - Przeciwnie,jestem workiem, wypchanym ?ywymi i umar?ymi. Jestem zbiegowiskiem ludzi obcych i ich spraw. - I gdybym nawet by? sob? - zgubiony w tej gromadzie, w tej st?oczonej masie - tobym doprawdy nie wiedzia?, który to jestem ja. Czy my?l? i czuj? sob?, czy tymi tam wszystkimi w sobie.

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of the mind.

A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.

Be yourself to find the uniqueness of the universe.