Quotes About Introspection

This is one technique - going into my shell - that has helped me get over my disappointments.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I looked at my own fights: everyone's excited and I was all disappointed that my techniques didn't work.

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

'Ted Lasso' has affected all of us - affected the cast, affected the crew, affected the writers. You can't really make a show like this without being accountable, and looking at your own behavior.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.

I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.

Jughead, to me, was reflective of a teen experience that made a lot of sense to me.

I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I'm older, I can look back on my teenage self and kind of see the things I did wrong and the things I did right, what affect they had on me, and what affect they had on other people. I can look at it in a much more conducive way to storytelling.

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

I spent a lot of my teenage years experimenting with who I was as a person and not really getting it right. And then, I think, I realized that I just had to chill out in life.

The teenage years are the years to examine faith - the need to be independent and the need to be anchored. Who made all this? And what do I have to do with it?

I spent my teenage years and early 20s being manipulated - well, not manipulated, but I was told what to do and what to say by agents and managers, and when I was around 23 I thought 'I am sick of pretending to be someone and saying all these things that don't really resonate with me.'

I read a lot until was about 12, then as a teenager I was more interested in kissing boys. But I kept a diary for a few years, so words were a big part of my teenage years.

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.