Quotes About Pause

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

Durmak diye düÅŸündü. Dinlenmek... gerçekten dinlenmek. MutluluÄŸun durabilmek, bir anl???na da olsa durabilmek olduÄŸunu fark etti. Durman?n mümkün olmad??? yerde mutluluk da olmazd?.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Le véritable bonheur, c'était cela. La possibilité de s'arrêter, ne serait-ce que pour un moment.

mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

Ocorreu-lhe que a misericórdia era a capacidade de parar, mesmo que apenas por um instante. Não havia misericórdia onde não era possível parar.

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.

During superfast reactions, the best-performing experts instinctively know when to pause, if only for a split-second. The same is true over longer periods: some of us are better at understanding when to take a few extra seconds to deliver the punch line of a joke, or when we should wait a full hour before making a judgment about another person. Part of this skill is gut instinct, and part of it is analytical.

He paused to sniff the aroma wafting from the kitchen. "Mmm! Do I smell chicken?" "Fried chicken." Mrs. Hardy had paused at the door and smiled as she glanced in. "And there'll be honey to go with Aunt Gertrude's hot biscuits. Would you like to have dinner with us, Chet?" "Would I? Boy, and how! But I'd better call Mom and let her know.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us 'on pause' in order to document our lives. It is an extension of how we have learned to put our conversations 'on pause' when we send or receive a text, an image, an email, a call.

Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used to go in, open the microphone and say the first thing that came into my head.

I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

The problem with the internet and the way that we communicate on the internet is - I mean it's obvious to everybody - but sometimes we don't stop and take a breath and think about it.

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

It might be time to give yourself a pause. A break. You can't rush healing. And healing is more important than anything else, including finishing a book.

Never miss an opportunity to do nothing

and took two with a sip

I took one breath and realized I could be angry a bit later if I wanted to be angry. There would always be time for that. There was no rush. I could resist the reflex. And so I did.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

the insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

You cannot control how others treat you, but by pushing the pause button, by taking time to choose your response to situations, you can be far more in control and far more likely to make appropriate decisions.