Quotes About Contemplation

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.