Alexandra Fuller Quotes

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

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

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.