Ryne Sandberg Quotes

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.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.

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 guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

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.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.