Quotes About Self Analysis

#1. It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

Joe Sacco

#2. I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#3. Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

Dan Millman

#4. By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Anton Corbijn

#5. They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached along the barren path of self-analysis.

Watchman Nee

#6. Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self analysis, and experience.

James Allen

#7. My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction.

Andrew Solomon

#8. Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#9. Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born.

Anthony Marais

#10. From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am.

Lauren Bacall

#11. I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.

Werner Herzog

#12. What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

#13. Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.

R.C. Sproul

#14. I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It's a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.

Thornton Willis

#15. Self-analysis always cheats.

Mason Cooley

#16. A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

Marty Rubin

#17. My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

David Pogue

#18. All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

Marcel Duchamp

#19. I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Mary MacLane

#20. For Amy is the victim of today's common malaise - too much self analysis; while I, finding myself remarkably uninteresting, am only too pleased to observe others and the natural objects around me. Thus I am

Miss Read

#21. In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

Paul Klee

#22. If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. When I'm at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be 'how do I get out of this hole?' In reality, the main question might be 'how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Donella Meadows

#25. Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#26. This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

Louis C.K.

#28. Or deep down, maybe there was more. Maybe I wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue.
Maybe. I don't know. But I was careful never to give myself away.

Jay Asher

#29. Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.

Norman Lock

#30. Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

Ilchi Lee

#31. I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.

Patricia Churchland

#32. Each and every minute spent reviewing one's lifestyle is never wasted. A better life comes when one takes time to re-order his/her steps, having learnt lessons worth applying!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Michael Shermer

#34. Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

Robert H. Schuller

#35. Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.

Bill Jensen

#36. 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.

Yann Martel

#37. Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#38. As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis that way, then there's no freedom. We're just trying clothes on in front of a mirror and admiring them.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

Ilchi Lee

#40. Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation - at least in the foreign policy world - depend on context and relevance.

Henry Kissinger

#41. Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

Stephen Covey

#42. Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.

Napoleon Hill

#43. A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt.
'Really?' said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. 'Should not he be trying to learn his own?

Terry Pratchett

#44. Learn your topic through self-study through scrupulous analysis and learn about your goal

Sunday Adelaja

#45. That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

Kenneth Arrow

#46. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

Otto Rank

#47. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

Wallace Stevens

#48. Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.

George Stigler

#49. Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

Pope Benedict XVI

#50. To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Carroll Quigley

#51. If you think you can stand to know what you're made of, try kneeling before God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#52. Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

Mamie McCullough

#53. Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

Michel Chossudovsky

#54. The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going.

Israelmore Ayivor

#55. The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.

Shannon L. Alder