Bernard Barton Quotes

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

It's hard listening to myself.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

I talk to myself a lot.

Prison gives you time to reflect.

I think what I've learned to do is not look inward as much.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within.

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.