Quotes About Contemplation

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.

I've never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I've done.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Belief is thought at rest.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.