Introspective Questions Quotes & Sayings

Your only consolation is that you've been here before. But try telling that to a drowning man. — Juliann Garey

The years passed unnoticed and unremembered, and one autumn morning I found myself suddenly forty-five years old. It was a time for weighing youthful hopes against mature accomplishment, for it was quite certain that I had by then done all I was ever going to do. Sitting alone at my desk that evening of my forty-fifth birthday I asked that least original of introspective questions: Where had it all gone? And the somewhat less banal question: What, after all, had it been? My — Trevanian

There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler. — Daniel Barenboim

Someone steals my good reputation from me, then he really does make me truly poor, and steals something that doesn't even make him any richer. — William Shakespeare

That's it! That's the list. — Tony Kornheiser

It is not love that keeps us stuck in the past. Love fades over time. What introspective hearts seek is simply unanswered questions about why terrible things can happen to very good people. Closure never comes from reflection. It only comes from God's guidance and promptings. — Shannon L. Alder

Dreams must be your own and smiles must be worth killer. — M.H. Rakib

At last- I had already given up hope- he broke throught the magic wall; at last helped me; at last he said a few words. Those were the only words I heard him speak today.
'You are tiring yourself Joseph,' he said softly, his voice full of that touching friendlness and solicitude you know so well. That was all. 'You are tiring yourself Joseph. — Hermann Hesse

I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me. — Joe Carnahan

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt. — Gloria Steinem

In this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness — Herman Melville

The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual. — Jean Bethke Elshtain

One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys. — Andrew Marr

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance. — Francis Of Assisi

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience. — Marilyn Ferguson

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures. — Johannes Kepler

An in-depth, introspective analysis is required. It needs to be objective, candid, and thorough. Good questions, like the following, can help. They may not produce perfectly clear answers, but they are a starting point. (Note that they are from an external perspective to give you some distance from internal biases.) What would our competitors say we do exceptionally well? Where are we dominant in the marketplace? Where do we have high market share? Where have others attempted to compete with us and failed? If we asked members to play "word association" with us, when we say the "XYZ Association" what word or phrase would come immediately to mind? If we asked members to identify the one thing that we do that helps them most, what would they say? What are we not doing that we should be doing that expands on existing strength? Don't allow your association to operate on "pseudo strength." Make sure your strength is real. — Harrison Coerver

It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay. — Brody Armstrong

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws. — David Foster Wallace

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them — David Eagleman