Quotes About Contemplation

The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it.

All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

Any discipline can help your writing: logic, mathematics, theology, and of course and particularly drawing. Anything that helps you to see, anything that makes you look.

Haze stood for a few minutes, looking over at the scene. His face seemed to reflect the entire distance across the clearing and on beyond, the entire distance that extended from his eyes to blank gray sky that went on, depth after depth, into space.

Çok geçmeden ba??ms?zl???n yeni tad?, yaln?zl??? daha çekilir bir duruma getirdi.

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

I find myself fascinating.

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

There are very few things that a good run can't help you figure out.

Squid Game' came at a moment where I was really thinking seriously about my acting career, so I wanted to put this into action finally.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

I think there's something to baseball, golf, fishing that there's downtime within all of those sports. Even though you're still doing the sport and everything that's involved, there's still this time to be able to think and have conversations.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

I always describe Facebook and Twitter to some extent as 'them time': it's time about the world and what's outside of you. Pinterest, for a lot of users, is 'me time.' What do I want my future to be? Who am I? What are the things I want to do?

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

I really struggled with what I was going to do with fantasy suites, but I didn't really want to think too much about it until we got there. I had a lot of other things on my mind at that point... but really that was just a personal decision between me and whoever I decided to go into the fantasy suite with or decided not to.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.