Ted Waitt Quotes

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Half my life is an act of revision.

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

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

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

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

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

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

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.