Quotes About Introspection

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.'

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

When I was a child, I was very shy and insecure. My mother was very over protective of me. I was a dreamer.

A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of.

Listen, not all of us are proud of what we say or do at times.

I don't feel that I or Canada has to prove anything through big, loud, overt acts.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

The only person I've got to prove to is myself.