Quotes About Contemplation

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

I reflected a lot, I thought a lot on my 50th birthday. It has been one of the most important birthdays in my life, not in terms of celebration but in terms of retrospect.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.