Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?" — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations. — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The… — Mitsuo Fuchida Copy Share Image
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
When it's easy, it's great. But when something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Self-examination isn’t about being perfect. It’s about listening and responding to the Spirit. It’s about allowing God to reveal where we are… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight. — David Brock Copy Share Image
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. — Mencius Copy Share Image
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
