Twyla Tharp Quotes

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

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

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

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

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

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

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

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.

I find myself fascinating.

I am not very introspective.

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.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I'm an introspective dude.

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

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

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 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.