Quotes About Pause

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No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

Above all this the stars shine. Willem pauses for a moment and feels the world turn as he struggles to pick out the Southern Cross among the interstellar static, He's never seen a sky so big or so bright. It's dizzying and he spins slowly to take it all in...

that everybody has to stop talking.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I get it. Artists are introverts. If you were out there socializing all the time, you wouldn't have time to contemplate and create. I have artists who are social butterflies. I'm not making a lot of money off them." She paused.

An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.

Is it me, or did we just stop in the median and the driver got out?" Larry asks. "He has to go peewee," Jade informs us. "Good to know I'm not demented," Larry remarks. "Merely imperiled.

take meaningful restorative breaks

Now it's time to create a "break list

Social breaks are effective

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

This pause between reactive and responsive is the beginning of choice, intention, and skillfulness as a parent.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Let's face it, stillness is not exactly easy to come by in today's culture. We are far more likely to be restless, anxious, fearful, fretful, and busy. But God's invitation is to be still—and to find again, in the calm pause, the assurance that He is, in fact, God. His plans are undeterred, and with or without us, He is going to receive glory from all peoples on the face of the earth.

Gamache had patiently explained, over and over, over the years, that he was doing something. He was thinking. It had taken Beauvoir years to see the power of pausing. And of patience. Of taking a breath to consider all options, all angles, and not simply acting on the most obvious.

On the way he stopped at Paillard, the marvelous bakery on rue St-Jean, and at a dépanneur for beer then headed up rue Ste-Ursule, pausing to check the address he'd been given, unconvinced he had it right. But no. There it was. 9¾ rue Ste-Ursule. He shook his head. 9¾.

Highway 362 hugged the cliffs and followed the St. Lawrence. And just before the village of Les Éboulements, she pulled over.

It had taken Beauvoir years to see the power of pausing. And of patience. Of taking a breath to consider all options, all angles, and not simply acting on the most obvious.

This isn't inaction, this is simply a deep breath.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

It's almost as if I had to stop running in order to see myself clearly, and what I see is a person who's been driving toward a goal for so long she can't remember why she set it in the first place.

I also know that when you're in the thick of living your life, you don't often get to push pause and reflect on it. It's just really hard to sit in the moment, and not worry if pause is going to turn into stop.