Quotes About Introspection

There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

I have never been one to seek or want attention or admiration or a pat on the back for what I've done.

Each song takes a different path through a different headspace.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself. I don't know if I could do that. But I'd love to direct again.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

I think I learned the value of being more patient with myself.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.