Quotes About Contemplation

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Don't work out, work in.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can enjoy.

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'