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• Look at your own life. Has it become overly complex? Have you found yourself burdened by too many possessions or responsibilities? Take a deep breath and ask yourself: "What steps can I take to reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously?"

  Douglas Bloch

  Responsibility, Looks, May

  Douglas Bloch (1988). “Words That Heal: Affirmations and Meditations for Daily Living”, p.49, BookBaby

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• Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is. Heartbreak is a constant and it is even necessary. It allows us the opportunity of introspection and exploration. Those processes are what is necessary to write and engage in the arts.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Writing, Opportunity

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.

  Octavia Spencer

  Healing, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.

  Marc Newson

  Art, Reflection, Gun

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• No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Nature, Men

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• Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions... Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Children, Growing Up, Hard Work

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• Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Reflection, Views, Worry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Responsibility, Writing, People

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• Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief is justified must somehow be internal to the agent. On some views, this amounts to the claim that these features must be accessible to introspection and armchair reflection. On others, it amounts only to the claim that they must be mental features.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Reflection, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• All attention is introspection.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Attention

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.

  David Papineau

  Powerful, Thinking, Issues

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

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• Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Communication, People, Silence

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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• Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

  Lance Armstrong

  Athlete, Race, Childhood

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.17, Random House

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• I had drawn away into the salt,
  myself, a shell
  emptied of life.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Solitude, Shells, Salt

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

  Soichiro Honda

  Dream, Failure, People

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• Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

  Charlaine Harris

  Mistake, Long, Perfect

  "Deadlocked". Book by Charlaine Harris, May 1, 2012.

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• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• What steps can I take to
  reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously?

  Douglas Bloch

  May, Steps, Live Simply

  Douglas Bloch (1992). “I Am With You Always: A Treasury of Inspirational Quotations, Poems and Prayers”, p.86, BookBaby

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• [in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958). “A Coney Island of the Mind”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.

  Vera Nazarian

  Night, Answers, Quiet

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• The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

  Joseph Conrad

  Beautiful, Privilege, Youth

  Joseph Conrad “The Secret Sharer and Other Stories”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Introspection is a devouring monster.

  Anais Nin

  Monsters, Devouring

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• There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Cutting, Differences, Elements

  "Nicholas Sparks Wants to Work With Johnny Depp". Interview with Meggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. October 13, 2014.

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• Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Fighting, Car

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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