Quotes About Silence

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!

When you grind & work hard, you don't ever have to tell anyone what you're up to, the results will speak much louder than anything else.

So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

I do pauses, pauses work for me

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

I don't like to open my mouth a lot because, I'll be honest with you, man, I come from the streets.

My whole life in the streets, I was taught not to answer questions and just keep my mouth shut.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Khushi is very sensitive but not very expressive. She is a little pricey as a person. She can be a little bit of a bully. But, there's strength and resilience in my sister that is magnanimous but it is silent.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'

Bad things written about me do bother me and affect me, but then I have learnt to take it in my stride. I have also learnt to keep quiet about certain things.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes.