Quotes About Contemplation

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

There was an existential moment - I don't know if I want to call it crisis - when I turned 50 and I felt 'this is interesting; how did this happen?' It affected me in a way I wasn't expecting. It made me pause for reflection.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

New Year's Eve is not about having a big party for me. It's a time of reflection, and I often go on spiritual retreats.

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.

Holidays are reflection time and I always take 'Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting', by Lynn Grabhorn.

Everyone knows that you need to have a period of reflection at the end of the season.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

I was a reflective child.

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.

I'm quite reflective - I listen to music, I read, I walk with Django.

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.