Quotes About Contemplation

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

The game of golf slows the whole world down and gives you time to think. Inner-city kids could learn a lot about patience.

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

I think any time you have a show that, after you watch it, it sort of sits with you for a while, and you take pause and you talk about it, yeah, it affects your life.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

I really like walking through Brompton Cemetery. It's really peaceful.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Les dieux ont enseigné aux hommes à se contempler eux-mêmes dans le spectacle comme les dieux se contemplent eux-mêmes dans l'imagination des hommes.

He did not think of God nor of his family but remarked to himself, 'Okay, I'm dying.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.

One jests because one wants to contemplate.

Next to this, we must consider the soul receiving its beauty from intellect

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.