Quotes About Contemplation

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.