Quotes About Contemplation

I'd rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.

I do like having a private life.

I'm the most private person.

Part of me has always been a private person.

I've been such a private person.

Never gave pro lacrosse a thought.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

I like to go out on my bike. That's when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads - that's when you get time, and you can think without problems.

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

I like the cerebral process.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

I don't digest things with my mind.

I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

After directing 'Sanam Re,' I was contemplating what to do - direct or act. I got really good opportunities of direction but I felt that if I have to act then I should do it now.

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

I really like sort of disappearing.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

I'm not a social person. I don't like parties. I like small groups, we discuss ideas in my office.