Quotes About Looking Inward

#1. We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

Terence McKenna

#2. Like Ada Lovelace, Turing was a programmer, looking inward to the step-by-step logic of his own mind. He imagined himself as a computer. He distilled mental procedures into their smallest constituent parts, the atoms of information processing.

James Gleick

#3. They broaden our outlook ... set us to looking inward ...

Peter S. Beagle

#4. We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

Raphael Zernoff

#5. To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#6. Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Gary Zukav

#7. Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

John Chrysostom

#8. If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

Camilla Gibb

#9. Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. Righteous service is the expression of true charity, such as the Savior showed.

Derek A. Cuthbert

#10. Sometimes, humans reach a certain point of endurance at which they snap. At that moment in the evening, I snapped.

Justine Faeth

#11. Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving ... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God ...

Pope Benedict XVI

#12. There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#13. There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

Ruskin Bond

#14. Gold is the corpse of value...

Neal Stephenson

#15. What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Oscar Wilde

#16. if everything finally comes down to inward-looking self-interest, to getting more for oneself, to accumulating wealth or power, very little is left for other motivations that can be described as true, noble, good, and lovely.

John Bolt

#17. When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament.

Pearl Cleage

#18. People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

John Roos

#19. Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

Marge Piercy

#20. Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. You base the decision on who you are - or who you want to be.

Adam M. Grant

#21. When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

Plotinus

#22. The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.

Andy Sawford

#23. To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

Dan Miller

#24. A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

John L. Phillips

#25. We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#26. Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

Paul Krugman

#27. Nothing I had drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that milk long after I had forgotten everything else.

Neil Gaiman

#28. Caleb taught me a few things about starting fights I can't win. He would want me to use my head and exploit anything I have to offer to get what I want. I force myself to portray calmness and sorrow. The sadness comes easy.

C.J. Roberts

#29. Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

Clayton Christensen

#30. Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.

Kamand Kojouri

#31. People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

Nicola Sturgeon

#32. Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

Tariq Ramadan

#33. To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.

Jiulio Consiglio

#34. I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

Gabrielle Bernstein