Quotes About Introspection

If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.

I have a Twitter profile, but I avoid red carpets and all that kind of stuff. I'd rather no one talk about me ever, and I just get to do my thing. I'm an introvert.

I'd never met Philip Seymour Hoffman, never knew anyone who knew him, never even read a passably revealing magazine profile of him.

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things.

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.