Quotes About Contemplation

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

I always watch the work I do.

Thought will not work except in silence.

Work alone qualifies us for life.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Joblessness is a time for reflection

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

You must live a life of self-consciousness always

Evaluate and assess your life on a daily

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.

I dwell on great thoughts.

I make time every day to think.

I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.