Jimmy Piersall Quotes

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.

I've had a lot of therapy in my life.

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned