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“There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.”

Film Differences Novel Cutting Elements Introspection

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.”

Thinking Children Made Self Creativity Serious Hopefully Introspection Examination Having Children Self-examination

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.”

Firsts Hands Introspection

Author:Epictetus

“I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.”

Knows Self Eye Tears Introspection Torn

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.”

Solitude Salt Shells Introspection

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.”

Ifs Giving Belief Information Curious Superstitions Introspection Infallible

Book:The Mind and Its Place in Nature

Source: The Mind and Its Place in Nature

“Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.”

Knows World Rooms Normal Patterns Convinced Improvement Idealism Introspection Room For Improvement

Book:The Red Smith reader

Source: The Red Smith reader

“Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.”

Use Race Childhood Athlete Introspection

Book:It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

“Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.”

Ifs Way Stills Lasts Girl Rich Introspection Handsome Athletic Surviving Being Funny Jewish Humor

Author:Mike Nichols

“No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.”

Knows Men Life Sometimes Nature Lows Rate Genuine Compare Introspection Measurement

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions... Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.”

“A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.”

Self Wise Pure Purity Introspection Incentives Refusal Resolute Purification Festivities

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“Truth suffers from too much analysis.”

Wisdom Suffering Too Much Analysis Introspection

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.”

“As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.”

Thinking Life Deals My Family Decided Athlete Following Boxing Introspection Coming Back Retired Professional Athlete

Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.”

Ifs Knows Fighting Battle Weapons Tools Chiefs Satan Holiness Introspection Discouraged Discouragement Accusers

Book:The Pursuit of Holiness

Source: The Pursuit of Holiness

“Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.”

Thinking Lying Desire Fire Eating Conscious Sitting Drinking Passing Passings Saving Introspection Moderates Involvement Endeavour Lying Down Eating And Drinking

Author:Dogen

“Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.”

Made Joy Spirituality Justice Pleasure Settling Introspection Vengeance Brokenness Clamor

Author:N. T. Wright

“The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.”

Humans Research Insight Mature Introspection Exterior

Author:Hugh Downs

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.”

Ifs Needs Purpose Culture Goal Loses Successful Team Honest Organization Sight Performing Introspection Transparent Introspective Unified Successful Organizations

Author:Colin Powell

“Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.”

Opportunity Adversity Introspection

Book:Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

“Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is. Heartbreak is a constant and it is even necessary. It allows us the opportunity of introspection and exploration. Those processes are what is necessary to write and engage in the arts.”

Knows Writing Art Joy Opportunity Process Walks And Love Constant Exploration Introspection

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.”

Thinking Knows Needs Trying Would Be Views Brain Issues Appeals Hopeless Mechanism Introspection Orthodoxy

Author:David Papineau

“After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.”

Thinking Enough Powerful Issues Concepts Colour Resolve Introspection Phenomenal Siding

Author:David Papineau

“I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms as well. We need to figure out what information is present in the mechanisms that constitute conscious colour perception.”

Thinking Knows Needs Wells Brain Figures Information Perception Conscious Colour Mechanism Introspection

Author:David Papineau

“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.”

Knows Needs Firsts Interesting Views Brain Awareness Information Scene Activity Details Visuals Resolve Crucial Introspection

Author:David Papineau

“All attention is introspection.”

Attention Introspection

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief is justified must somehow be internal to the agent. On some views, this amounts to the claim that these features must be accessible to introspection and armchair reflection. On others, it amounts only to the claim that they must be mental features.”

Believe Belief I Believe Views Deals Virtue Amount Approach Reflection Claims Agents Appeals Features Internals Introspection Justified Intuitive Epistemology Armchairs

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.”

Mind May Belief Views Worry Achieve Reflection Justification Introspection Acquisition Unreliable

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“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.”

Thinking Self Hard Form Political Term Acting Imagine Movement Buddhism Degrees Mass Introspection Examination Self-examination

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Source: Letters

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Life Inspirational Looks Dream Beautiful Spirituality Vision Clear Human Nature Self Esteem Self Love Illusion Self Awareness Self Confidence Awake Being Yourself Thoughtful Finding Yourself About Yourself Introvert Introspection Thyself Inner Self Psychiatrist Psychologist True To Yourself Deep Inside Hopes And Dreams Memories Dreams Reflections Self Transformation Dreams You Have Look At Yourself Small Dreams Self Knowing Following Dreams Great Vision Clear Vision Discovering Yourself Life Dream Visions And Dreams Dreams And Aspirations Vision Of Life Discovering Self New Vision Self Loving Creative Vision Life And Dreams Spirit And Soul Psychoanalytic Discovering Your True Self Finding Oneself Clarity Of Vision Fulfilling Dreams Being Your True Self Awareness Of Life Ideas And Dreams Look Inside Yourself Lost Yourself True Vision Life Yourself Clear Direction Becoming Who You Are Beautiful Inside And

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“It's a very important process of self-recognition, self-introspection, by just daily accepting our creation, accepting what is right in front of us, breathing, letting go, and coming into the heart space and knowing that that fear or the struggle is part of the illusion. Just breathe that truth, because as you breathe, it filters through and you'll find that that tightness, that intensity, the fear, the worry, will dissolve. Just allow yourself not to get stuck in that.”

“I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection indicates pretty clearly that we don't think in language necessarily. We also think in visual images, we think in terms of situations and events, and so on, and many times we can't even express in words what the content of our thinking is. And even if we are able to express it in words, it is a common experience to say something and then to recognize that it is not what we meant, that it is something else.”

Ifs Thinking Able Language Term Common Situation Events Evidence Visuals Introspection Scientific Evidence Common Experience Visual Images

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.”

Thinking World Way Want Looks Littles Artist Healing Roles Offers Entertainment Uncertainty These Days Introspection Fabulous

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.”

People Thinking World Kind Art Different Moments Helping Problem Design Solutions Reflection Gun Incredibles Not Sure Designer Questioning Introspection

Author:Marc Newson

“I often encountered books by academics and others who had not actually done what they had written about. They tend to create artificial simplicity; their prose doesn't have the vigor of "lived words." On the other hand, many practitioners lack the context or introspection to make their experiences and understandings transferable - and, in our time, many don't actually write the books they "author." My ideal is to unify theory and practice.”

Writing Book Done Understanding Simplicity Prose Introspection

Author:James M Strock

“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.”

Self Moments Wish Boys Doubt Embrace Good Things Ease Introspection Self-doubt

Author:Hugh Laurie

“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”

Ease Introspection

Author:Hugh Laurie

“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”

Mind War Literature House Introspection Hermits Cocoons

Author:James Russell Lowell

“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.”

Thinking Long Lost Parent Teacher Youth Adults Birthday Introspection Introspective Long Distance Lost Friendship Parents And Teachers

Book:Culture and Commitment

Source: Culture and Commitment

“The only journey is the one within.”

Life Beautiful Journey Addiction Introspection Life Journey My Journey Life Is A Journey Inner Journey Journey To Success

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.”

Book Self Prayer Sin Written Praying Holy Judgment Introspection Festivals Fasting Atonement Book Of Life Yom Kippur

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“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.”

Looks Self Shows Found Humour Degrees Elements Mirrors Disappointment Ridiculous Frightened Portraits Introspection Self Portrait

Author:Robert Winston

“I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.”

Looks Soul Self Loses Existence Solitary Portraits Introspection Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Book:I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

Source: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”

World Trouble Pride Arguing Introspection

Author:Nick Hornby

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

Writing Creativity Loneliness Cold Solitude Oneself Introspection Abyss Being Alone Descent

Author:Franz Kafka

“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

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