Quotes about Reflection

We don't want reactions. We don't want first impressions. We don't want knee-jerks. We want considered feedback. Read it over. Read it twice, three times even. Sleep on it. Take your time to gather and present your thoughts—just like the person who pitched the original idea took their time to gather and present theirs.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while

You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

Also, don't be timid about your conclusions. Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.

Another common misconception: You need to learn from your mistakes. What do you really learn from mistakes? You might learn what not to do again, but how valuable is that? You still don't know what you should do next. Contrast that with learning from your successes.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.