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“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”

Thinking Men Form Brain Teach Study Machines Method Western Introspective Gadgets

Book:Naked lunch

Source: Naked lunch

“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 is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.”

Men May Feelings Certain Games Walks Too Much Wife Achieve Amount Golf Chiefs Triumph Sensitive Merit Decent Thick Petty Golfers Introspective Walks Of Life Rugged Solicitude

Book:The Golf Omnibus

Source: The Golf Omnibus

“By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.”

Self Rights Fool Lonely Patient Stupidity Satire Sarcasm Occupation Introspective Inspection

Author:Frank Moore Colby

“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 is no faith at all.”

Thinking Doe Action Spiritual Concern Everyday Tendencies Spiritual Life Translate Everyday Life Godly Divorced Introspective

Author:Dalai Lama

“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 open all kinds of inner doors.”

Ifs Knows Way Kind States Doors Exercise Training Capacity Best Way All Kinds Reaching Introspective

Author:Al Oerter

“Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.”

Want Writing Hard Done Feelings Home Night President Records Imagine Meetings Sensitive Journal Entry Introspective Going Home Inner Feelings

Author:Gail Collins

“But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.”

Quiet Introspective

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“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 that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.”

Thinking Littles Long Has Beens Made Life Is Grows Mistake Growing Up Keys Long Time Plenty Insecurity Shyness Introspective Time To Grow Up

Author:Richard Gere

“I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.”

Thinking Persons Has Beens Book Action Written Heavy Introspective

Author:Lois Lowry

“There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.”

Drunk Introspective

Author:Tom Sharpe

“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 a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.”

People World Giving Firsts Self Moments Awareness News First Time Self Awareness Pity Ass Adolescence Rats Unjust Threatening Self Pity Introspective Bad News Playgrounds

Author:Tom Robbins

“Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.”

Mind Believe Different I Believe Essentials Discovering Sensitivity Introspective Cultivating

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“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 it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.”

Different Keys Balls Developing Phrases Complexity Traps Puzzles Introspective Crosswords

Author:Paul Desmond

“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 through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.”

Men Mind Understanding Intellectual Organization Philosophical Technique Psychological Observation Analysis Enlightened Priests Ritual Creeds Dogma Introspective Dissection

Book:The Journey Home

Source: The Journey Home

“I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.”

Source: Becoming light: poems, new and selected

“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 film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.”

Film Stuff My Own Introspective Soundtracks

Author:Stanley Clarke

“The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.”

Film Roles Heavy Introspective Brooding Diesel

Author:Vin Diesel

“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 and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.”

Self Three Quiet Calm Analysis Shattered Introspective Sloth Thesis Glands Zoology Thyroid Thyroid Gland

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.”

Littles Persons Introspective Doubtful

Author:Russell Brand

“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 the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.”

Done Past Decades I Realized Questioning Introspective

Author:Sheryl Lee

“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 out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.”

People Want Might Force Stupid Silly Worried Introspective

Author:Amy Ray

“If there is one thing to do, it is to do introspective soul searching to find your passion.”

Ifs Soul Passion One Thing Things To Do Soul Searching Introspective

Author:Winston Damarillo

“Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.”

Men Should Reason Suffering Causes Bears Should Have Anxious Unjust Introspective

Book:Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author

“Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.”

Language Produce Communication Creatures Reflection Complexes Mediums Humankind Homo Sapiens Introspective Differentiate Spoken Language

Book:The Origin Of Humankind

Source: The Origin Of Humankind

“I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.”

Thinking Persons Bigs Mistake Faults Introspective Big Mistake

Author:Ellen Barkin

“I am not very introspective.”

Introspective

Author:Pierre Salinger

“I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.”

Thinking Able Turns Actors Personality Quiet Cameras Males Admire Comic Introspective

Author:Peter Dinklage

“I'm an introspective dude.”

Introspective

Author:Dave Chappelle

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