Quotes About Stillness

For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

Patience is also a form of action.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

The cinema is death at work.

I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

Bushmaster was such a great adversary, and Mustafa Shakir, just the way that he embodies him in terms of the power of the voice, the stillness, and then, at the same time, when they do get after it, when he does fight, just how kinetic he was. He just brought a great dynamic and being able to explore his history in making the character Jamaican.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

I've played a lot of these characters that aren't particularly pleasant and pretty powerful, bad people, and one thing I've discovered is that there's a real stillness to these guys.

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

Time seems to stop in certain places.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.