Quotes About Introspection

I'm a very secretive person.

I'm very secretive about my feelings, very shy.

I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

When an opportunity comes knocking, you don't necessarily have to open your door. But you owe it to yourself to at least look through the keyhole.

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

My mind is my own church.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

I'm not the best dog owner.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.

I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.

If we're losing, I probably won't be talking as much. I'll probably be more talking to my pads.