You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.
I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.
The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?
The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.
The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.
There are two kinds of people. The smart people ... who sit around the table and kind of examine life. And then there are the other people—who run for public office, and some of the idiots like myself who are just in there fighting.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.
There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.
I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.
I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.
In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.
