Quotes About Introspection

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror.

I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

People should see my work and think beyond what I am on daily basis, on Twitter, Instagram, or the perception they have of me in their heads.