Top 1200 Quiet People Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

A lot of people think I don't like them just because I'm pretty quiet. But there are certain things people don't necessarily need to know. There's got to be some things for me.

I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.

People want to engage you by being outraged or faux-outraged at things you're saying, but if you confront them and defend yourself, then people don't like it. But then if you don't and you stay quiet, people don't like that either.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Simply put, we have to take charge and take responsibility and support what's in the marketplace. Because, quiet as it's kept, the powers that be are cognizant of what our spending dollar means. And it is kept a little quiet, and we have to become aware of what we mean in the marketplace and take advantage of it.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

I don't know if a pro wrestling career prepares you for Hollywood. When you get out there, and you're in an arena for 20,000 people or 90,000 people, it's a lot different than being on a quiet set with 100 people, so I think you get used to dealing with cameras.

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

My father always told my sisters and me that once you succeed, people will automatically be quiet. And he was right.

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.

A lot of people have the misconception that modeling is a glamourous job, and it can be. But ultimately if you don’t like to stay quiet, and let people tell you what to do, and fuss on you… it may not be the right fit. If you decide it’s something you’re really passionate about though, go for it!

I just want to be quiet wherever I go, not seeing people, not facing more pressure, because every time now I go home, I will have so many people waiting for me.

The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet. . . . Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.

Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest. Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled. The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.

Gerrard is quiet; if he speaks people listen. If he has something to say, it's important and clever. He's a hard worker, disciplined.

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

My parents are people who like to stay to themselves. They're quiet. They raised me not to be boastful about anything we do.

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

When I'm in a bikini or at a photo shoot, I'm real confident. But, if I'm in a group of people I don't know, I'm really quiet.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

Do you know, if I go to a Jewish school, them kids are quiet. If I go to a white school, them kids quiet. If I go to a Latino school, they quiet. The only kids that disrespect me is black kids. That's it - my own are the only ones that disrespect me.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

People misjudge it sometimes and think I'm selfish or I'm quiet or I'm rude because I don't talk.

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.

We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

I love it when people criticise me. There is no better feeling than when you make them quiet.

O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are. - Wayne Dyer Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice" is yearning to be heard.

Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past.

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.