Quotes About Pause

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

Rest is overrated.

The beads of his words strung with too much silence between them.

On a piece of paper, write down the formula for our human reaction: S-P-R This stands for Stimulus—Pause—Response.

The pause is as important as the note.

All right, shutting up now,

The long pause before action was always hard to bear, but now in a few seconds everything would vanish but for the living instant – no sadness, no time for fear.

cleared. Glasses refilled. Body

Memory My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour—'T was noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May—The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then, pausing here, set down its load Of pine-scents, and shook listlessly Two petals from that wild-rose tree.

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

The glare of gas station rest stops, mystical, comet-like as they rushed past, but melancholy and ordinary when we paused for the ten-minute breaks.

All serious travelers arrive at this doubting, why-bother juncture, stalling on the road, sometime or other.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

every movement needs to pause at times

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene

Man kann die Zeit nicht aufhalten, aber für die Liebe bleibt sie manchmal stehen.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.

It all comes through learning to pause for a moment, learning not to just impulsively do the same thing again and again. It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. The result is that we cease to cause harm. We begin to know ourselves thoroughly and to respect ourselves.

Usually we feel that there's a large problem and we have to fix it. The instruction is to stop. Do something unfamiliar. Do anything besides rushing off in the same old direction, up to the same old tricks.

Refraining is very powerful because it gives us an opportunity to acknowledge when we're caught and then to get unstuck.

We can connect with that openness at any time. For instance, right now, for three seconds, just stop reading and pause. If

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.