Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

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

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

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

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.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?'

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

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

Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.

The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

In order to see truly where I am and where I want to go, I need to remember where I once was.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

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

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

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

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?