Display Quote by John Updike

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those…

— Eric Maisel

With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught…

— Mitsuo Fuchida

My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

— Olivia Newton-John

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

— David Brock

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to…

— Robin Morgan

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost…

— C.E. Morgan

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the…

— Bell Hooks