Quotes About Introspective

She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

he was an old man who was talking to himself on a wharf in Portland, Maine, and he could not—Jack Kennison, with his two PhDs—he could not figure out how this had happened.

praise seems unable to enter me.

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I'm kind of a boring person. People think I get to travel the world and I rap or whatever, but I'm pretty boring. My life is pretty crazy enough, and when I'm not on the road or doing something, I'm kind of boring.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.

I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

I am a realistic type of guy. I am my biggest critic.

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

I am a bit of a granny, I feel older than my years. I like to read rather than go to parties but at the same time my band and I have a lot of fun on tour and can be big kids.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

My entire life, I was told I was an old soul. I never really connected with other children when I was growing up.

I keep to myself a lot, I guess.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Hamlet is a little daunting.