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Introspection! I hate it!
All attention is introspection.
I am a victim of introspection.
Withdraw into yourself and look.
Introspection is always retrospection
Introspection is a devouring monster.
A writer needs a life of introspection.
All Disruption starts with introspection.
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?
It is good for society to have this introspection.
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.
I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.
I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.
Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.
'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.
The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.
If I can inspire one spark of awareness or get a spark of introspection or reflection about someone else's life, that's a beautiful thing, in my opinion.
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.
Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
Passion is something that's hard to discover purely through introspection. You have to have experiences - you have to learn real-time and through experiences what makes you tick.
The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.
There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
I went through a phase of deep introspection. I realised that while doing films back to back, I was getting burnt out and not concentrating on quality. I wasn't preparing for my role and was working like a machine. When I saw the result on the big screen, I felt that the work I'd done was horrible.