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  • I want to say that what is cool about writing self-aware first person narrative is that the awareness is not necessarily the same awareness of the reader. I have a story coming out in the Paris Review and it's about a hipster. He think's he's self-aware, he's very introspective and analytical, but when you're reading it you can totally see through his self-analysis because you have a higher awareness than he does. I like playing with that too.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

    Home   Writing   Night  
    "Political Introspection". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 10, 2013.
  • I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.

    Jobs   Hate   Thinking  
  • 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.

    Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.

    Home   Character   Artist  
    Source: uproxx.com
  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   Brain  
    William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr
  • 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.

    Self   People   Giving  
    "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.
  • At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

    Character   Ideas   Needs  
  • The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

    Roles   Film   Brooding  
  • It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

    Self   Analysis   Action  
  • I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

    "Longmire's Katee Sackhoff on Finally Playing a Character Who Has Her Shit Together". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 06, 2012.
  • I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

    Believe   Wind   Bird  
  • There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

  • I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

    "After Childhood Abuse, 'Times' Columnist Says He Chose Life Over Vengeance". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2014.
  • E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!

    People   Roles   Way  
  • Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

  • 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.

    "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthman, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.
  • The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.

    Sex   Real   Shy  
    "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.
  • When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.

  • I'm an introspective dude.

    "On the Beach With Dave Chappelle". Interview with Christopher John Farley, content.time.com. May 15, 2005.
  • 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.

    Golf   Men   Games  
    P.G. Wodehouse (2013). “The Golf Omnibus”, p.163, Random House
  • Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.

    Book   Reading   People  
    Nick Hornby (2012). “More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself”, p.27, McSweeney's
  • The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is narrated in the Bible. Our focus is introspective and narrow, confided to our own immediate knowledge, experience, and intuition. Trying desperately to get others, including God, to make us happy, we cannot seem to catch a glimpse of the real story that gives us a meaningful role.

    Meaningful   Real   Fall  
  • As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

    Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
  • Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

    Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.76, Harvard University Press
  • Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

    Happiness   Crazy   Yoga  
  • Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

    People   Mind   Asking  
    "Bachelor Girls".
  • I fell like a lot of times, when I write a song, it is coming from an introspective perspective that my faith always kind of factors. Faith is either part of what factors in to my decision making, or it is part of what factors into my fears and my doubts. It is either the positive or the negative part of it that is afflicting me during times of conflict, which is normally when you write songs about yourself when you find some sort of conflict or you are seeking some sort of resolution.

    Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
  • You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.

    Fun   Pain   Thinking  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • 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.

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