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Quotes About Pausing

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.
~ Jon Watts
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
~ A Bartlett Giamatti
And when I hear their questions, do you hear questions? What do their voices mean to you? Perhaps you just think they're singing songs to you. He reflected on this, and saw the flaw in the supposition. Perhaps they are singing songs to you, he said, and I just think they're asking me questions. He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.
~ Douglas Adams
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
The man paused and added with a grin, He also wishes your porter's head on a silver plate for not opening the gate at once upon his herald's declaration of his visit. This tale of threatening brigands is all very well, but can't I see he's the sheriff?
~ Robin McKinley
Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.
~ Douglas Brinkley
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.
~ John Boehner
The fallacy that passes for truth by the mere frequency of its repetition is a particular peril for lawyers working in the common-law system. Like all men and women, we are comfortable with familiar formulations, and in addition are trained to follow what has been said before. It is sometimes worth pausing to consider whether it has been said aright.
~ Antonin Scalia
60. An arrow has one motion and the mind another. Even when pausing, even when weighing conclusions, the mind is moving forward, toward its goal. 61. To enter others' minds and let them enter yours.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I've always worked toward, and felt comfortable with, you know, pausing and guiding the audience on a longer bit.
~ Tom Segura
Barham you may be, but there is one thing you have been which is certain!' He paused to let this sink in. My lord did not seem to be greatly impressed. 'Oh, a number of things!' he assured his guest. 'Of course, there are a number of things I have not been, too.
~ Georgette Heyer
Do not hurry as you walk with grief; it does not help the journey. Walk slowly, pausing often: do not hurry as you walk with grief. Be not disturbed by memories that come unbidden. Swiftly forgive; and let Christ speak for you unspoken words. Unfinished conversation will be resolved in him. Be not disturbed. Be gentle with the one who walks with grief. If it is you, be gentle with yourself. Swiftly forgive; walk slowly, pausing often. Take time, be gentle as you walk with grief.
~ Shane Claiborne
Similarly clad women stood by the muddy well, pausing in their endless dunking of cats – a bemusing activity, its symbolism lost on the man as he hurried past.
~ Steven Erikson
Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to 'weirdies' of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.
~ Tim Heidecker
the 'secret' of a spiritual life is the capacity to '...return to that which we have spent a lifetime hiding from, to rest in the bodily experience of the present moment -- if even it is a feeling of being humilated, of failing, of abandonment, of unfairness.' Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience.
~ Tara Brach
In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. And good- Don't say it! yelled Helena. No whistling, no well-wishing. I thought you weren't superstitious. I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously there are limits.
~ Christopher Fowler
As he was about to leave, she said, Murtagh. He paused and turned to regard her. She hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said, Why? She thought he understood her meaning: Why her? Why save her, and now why try to rescue her? She had guessed at the answer, but she wanted to hear him say it. He stared at her for the longest while, and then, in a low, hard voice, he said, You know why.
~ Christopher Paolini
Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, "Do come in!
~ Victor Hugo
I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.
~ Tim Heidecker
stood as she left the table, and wondered if three
~ Jeffrey Archer
After pausing, the student continues: "There's also an element of believing something because you want it to happen." This betrays a second bias in which we believe what we want to be true. This is a form of confirmation bias, which exacerbates the distorting effect of availability bias. We seek out information that confirms our existing beliefs or desires, and ignore information that refutes them.
~ David Franklin
I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.
~ James Fenimore Cooper