Quotes About Contemplation

I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.

I don't journal that much, honestly.

I don't keep a journal.

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

I won't jump two-footed into something without really thinking about it.

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

You know when people ask sometimes what are you doing, and you say just something to them.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

In the dressing room before kick off, Arsene won't say a lot.

I kind of crave loneliness.

I could never say that I wouldn't consider selling the Knicks.

I got a house... in Effingham, so they lock me up in my hermitic seal, and if they knock, I don't answer the door. I am immersed in my world.

My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.

The moment isn't a piece of time; it's a question. The moment comes when you look up and see your life stretching out for seventy more years. And there, in front of you, like a giant roadblock, is the question: Is this life good enough for the next seventy years? But maybe that's the easy question. The next logical question-- Can I live like this? --is the killer. Because it isn't a yes or no kind of question. It's a do or die kind of question. I avoid moments.

I lay in the middle of an orgy-sized bed without the orgy, or anybody for company except a butterfly flirting with the sheers over the window.

When to Be Quiet I will have many occasions to open my mouth in the days ahead. But

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.