Quotes About Introspection

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.

I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about.

After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

I actually want to hold on to where I came from, and also I want to be at this bar in Brooklyn, even if I'm not drinking at all. What does that tension look like? It's less an attack on the parents and more an interrogation of personal guilt, personal responsibility. That's my internal dialogue.