Quotes About Contemplation

isolated instances of beauty and in no urgent need of beholders.

May heaven be in my heart by faith, and may my heart be in heaven by spiritual meditation.

I go over my own escape routes all the time.

Maybe she has no idea what happened to us, even if we're alive or dead. Look at your life.

I don't exhaust myself by reading or listening to the noise around me.

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Showers last only 10 minutes, but you can't do anything else in there but think. The shower is probably the main place I come up with ideas. That's where I came up with the concept for OneVoice, my nonprofit organization.

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

Nowadays, people send rockets into space, and I think it does make you question if there's a God. They can make babies in a dish now! Everything we're seeing goes against what people always believed in.

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.