Quotes About Contemplation

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

I have no words for my reality.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.

I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have to let things settle and think about them.

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

What and why were never questions for me. How was the only question.

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

Those who attend to the good side of everything contemplate the good. Those who contemplate the good enjoy life.