Quotes About Contemplation

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

I never discuss discussions.

I'm not one for a public display of my life.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

A really important technique for me is visualisation. Before a match I will sit down and think about all the different situations which might happen on the field - if the openers start well, if you end up going out earlier than expected, what the conditions might be like.

This quarantine life is not new to me. I've been like this from my teens.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I find there are a few places where I like to meditate more than in other places. There's a little Catholic church that I go to, and there's another temple I go to - there are certain places where I just feel more comfortable.

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.