Personal Analysis Quotes

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.

I analyse everything I do and when I see something I don't like I try to find the solution and that's why I'm so hard on myself.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

Examine well your blood.

We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.

I am not very introspective.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.