Quotes About Silence

In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.

If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!