Quotes About Introspection

Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

I do not like to discuss a game with the other players right after the final whistle.

I ended up getting sent off at The Dell against Liverpool for two bookable offences. I think that was the lowest point of my career. I ran straight into the dressing-room and stayed there, alone, until the final whistle.

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

I think the way you prevent your man from cheating on you is to just have a good understanding about who he is first. If you know that the guy you're with is a player and he's already kind of living the life, you know what you're getting yourself into. You have to be real with yourself.

It is insufficient to say that my experience as a bully haunts me. Rather, my experience as a bully has been fundamental to the creation of my conscience, because it is what prevents me from making the basic human claim that I am a good person.

The idea for 'Midnight Moonlight' was mostly inspired by the moon herself. Advancing from my previous EP 'Moon Shoes,' I felt it necessary to dig a little deeper into who I am and the relationship between my music and the moon.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the previous annum's worth of columns.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

One may be humble out of pride.

In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.