Quotes About Contemplation

If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.

I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

Sometimes, I'd stop the car on the way home after filming 'Millionaire', and fish for a while in the dark.

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Planning and reminiscing can be a good thing... in moderation.

I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll be playing in my head, while they are.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.