Quotes About Contemplation

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.

I've found that I do some of my best thinking during our early morning walks - those few hours after the garbage trucks have gone and before the coffee shops open when Manhattan is as asleep as it ever will be. For that one hour each morning, I'm focused on the now.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

My birthday is generally a very quiet affair.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

A lot of directors don't bother to go back and look at their films, but I do.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

At times I think and at times I am.

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.