Chris Bosh Quotes

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

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

I try not to be overly analytical.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

The examined life is no picnic.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

Sometimes we need to take back and take a look at ourselves, a look at where we are

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

We teach what we need to learn.

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.