Quotes About Contemplation

thinking about all the weird things

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time .... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.

The art of living in today's world requires us to reach inside ourselves and search for the answers.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find A meaning suited to his mind.

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

Quoique bien jeune, j'ai trop connu ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler la vie pour n'avoir pas trouvé au fond de cette mer le mépris de ce qu'on aperçoit à sa surface. ( RAZETTA )

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.

I don't like to change things too much. I think pretty hard about things before I jump in, and once I do, I feel, 'All right, I don't want to waste the energy of buying, selling this, going on Consumer Reports, test driving, buying, selling a house.' I feel life is to be lived.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

As a kid, I was always more interested in watching others than being the centre of attention. I've always felt that you can see a lot more and learn a lot more when you're standing on the edge.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.