Jamie Campbell Bower Quotes

He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything on his powers of detachment, on de-narcissizing himself… Freud… studied his own dreams not because he was a “narcissist,” but because he was a student of dreams. And whose were at once the least and most accessible of dreams, if not his own?

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I don't interest myself that much.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

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

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

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

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.