Introspective Quotes

• I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

  Sheryl Lee

  Past, Done, Questioning

  "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthman, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.

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• Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.

  Stanley Clarke

  Stuff, Film, Soundtracks

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• I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

  John Thaw

  Extroverts, Persons

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• It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

  Joe Sacco

  Self, Analysis, Action

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• There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

  Rita Rudner

  Sarcastic, Personality, Different

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• I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

  Joni Mitchell

  Persons

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• To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

  Al Oerter

  Exercise, Doors, Training

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• Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

  Eudora Welty

  Life, Travel, Inspiration

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Teacher, Long Distance

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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

  Rowan Atkinson

  Quiet

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• In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

  Rosie Perez

  Funny, Circles, Spotlight

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• I am not very introspective.

  Pierre Salinger

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• I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

  Andy Cohen

  Way, Deals, My Own

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Men, Should Have, Suffering

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.49, Jester House Publishing

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• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Godly, Thinking

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• An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

  Tim Lucas

  Men, Special, Diaries

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• There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.

  Tom Sharpe

  Drunk

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• If there is one thing to do, it is to do introspective soul searching to find your passion.

  Winston Damarillo

  Passion, Soul, Things To Do

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• I am haunted by interrupted acts,
  introspective as a leper, enchanted
  by a repulsive clew,
  a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs.
  Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Flames, Light, Movement

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.54, Northwestern University Press

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• For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, People, Giving

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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• One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Unique, Issues, Voice

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• Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

  Paul Desmond

  Keys, Different, Balls

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• Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

  Gail Collins

  Home, Writing, Night

  "Political Introspection". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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