Reassessment Quotes

I think that there was a lot of fantasy projected onto me, and that resulted in a reappropriation and re-characterization of who I am.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

I was with the Steelers, and I got cut, and I remember, when I left, I was relieved.

Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.

Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

You have to adapt your policies to changing circumstances.