Quotes About Introspection

Even if you only meditate for ten minutes a day, it is ten minutes well spent and, in the long term, can give you the wisdom to see that the answers to our problems lie within us.

We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.

For the first ten years of my career, or up to the point I did 'Local Hero,' I was always trying to be somebody else as an actor.

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

When you are living alone then you tend to take life casually.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.

Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.