Quotes About Introspection

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

It's after dark that I feel most inspired, I'm a nocturnal creature. I'll write poetry or streams of consciousness, play instruments, or teach myself to DJ by doing a silent solo set.

Our lives teach us who we are.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn't have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn't hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn't doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

College education teaches you humility.

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

Life doesn't always go according to plan, and we don't always act in a way that represents who we are. What matters is that these moments become teaching moments.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

I just be teaching myself.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

I like to try to learn from my past and be a better person because of it. Better player, better teammate. Better everything.

In basketball and football I would cry. I didn't understood why all my teammates weren't good. Then I started boxing and I knew it was different. I said, this is all me.