Quotes about Introspection

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

In golf, you're more competing with yourself.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.