Gregory Hines Quotes

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

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

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

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.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

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

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

Before I go to bed, sometimes I'll just sit outside and philosophically assess the day.

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.

Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I've come and what's changed.

I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

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.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.