A Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Introspection is always retrospection

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre
French - Novelist
June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

David Leavitt

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.

Mahavira

After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.

David Papineau

Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

Abdul Kalam

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Anais Nin

In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

Mas Oyama

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

Sue Monk Kidd

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

Young-Ha Kim

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.

Nicholas Sparks

Introspection! I hate it!

Ethel Kennedy

All attention is introspection.

Thomas Metzinger

The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position.

Kerry Collins

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