Quotes About Contemplation

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

I'm really slow.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

I'm slow by nature; even if I write something fast, I'll let it sit for a month and hem and haw over it.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

I love slow music.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing.

Sometimes I need a slower pace, to slow my mind down and just be with nature, go outside.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

I write slowly.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

As a session player for so many years, I have found myself in rooms looking around going, 'Is this for real?'