Introspective Quotes
59 quotes by 57 authors
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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
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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…
— Dalai Lama
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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…
— Al Oerter
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
— Rowan Atkinson
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This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant…
— Harry Reasoner
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I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think…
— Richard Gere
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I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
— Lois Lowry
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There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.
— Tom Sharpe
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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…
— Tom Robbins
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Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
— Joshua Waitzkin
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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…
— Paul Desmond
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Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it…
— Radhanath Swami
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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…
— Erica Jong
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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…
— Stanley Clarke
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet…
— Yann Martel
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As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
— Russell Brand
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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…
— Sheryl Lee
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You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come…
— Amy Ray
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If there is one thing to do, it is to do introspective soul searching to find your passion.
— Winston Damarillo
Who Wrote These Introspective Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 59 Introspective Quotes, led by these top contributors: