Reflection and Analysis Quotes

We promote pluralism, not dogma. We critique, we do not accept uncritically. We question and we debate, and over time we will separate the wheat from the chaff. We will separate the worthwhile from the misguided in all the new ideas and new voices that we hear. But we cannot do that if we close ourselves from the contrarian view, or simply suppress the views of those who would challenge the accepted and the known.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess

I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any experience.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

For me, writing is just processing.

I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style of play.

Learn from the things that have been done already, for this is the best way of learning.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.