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  • 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.

    Media   People   Guy  
    Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.
  • Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

    William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA
  • One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

    Book   Passion   Boredom  
  • Truth suffers from too much analysis.

    Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.68, Penguin
  • Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

    Ignorance   Wrath   Self  
    "A Message to Trayvon Martin Sympathizers". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.
  • Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation.

    Drama   Men   Europe  
  • Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.

    "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.
  • I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

    Solitude   Shells   Salt  
    Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.46, New Directions Publishing
  • Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

  • This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

    May   Stuff   Irony  
    "Mrs. Wallop".
  • If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.63, Open Road Media
  • If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.

    Years   Long   Needs  
  • Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

  • The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position.

    Sunday   Past   Play  
    "Kerry Collins Has Retired From The NFL After 16 Seasons". www.businessinsider.com. July 7, 2011.
  • Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.

    "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
  • What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will come about slowly and then quickly - it builds momentum.

  • The only journey is the one within.

  • Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

  • Introspection is always retrospection

  • It is good for society to have this introspection.

  • He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

    William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”
  • When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

    "What I See in the Mirror: Robert Winston". www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
  • But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

    Beautiful   Dark   Self  
    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

    Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.284, Routledge
  • Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

    Mirrors   Way   Sincerity  
  • If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

    Book   Writing   Self  
  • 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.

    "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" by John Brockman, Barnes & Noble Publishing, (p. 31), 2003.
  • Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

    Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.17, Random House
  • When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

    Wicked   Wonder   Sin  
    Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.363, Psychology Press
  • From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

    Mean   Blessing   Views  
    Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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