Nina Tassler Quotes

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.

I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.

I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.