Top 1200 Quiet Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

I keep to myself a little bit more, I have that more quiet sexiness, quiet confidence going and I think that does intrigue people.

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

I’m a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

Quiet is definitely not how I would describe New York, but if I go outside of the front door, I see the beautiful Central Park, so it's a nice place to be. And I have a very quiet room, which helps!

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.

When I get up early, I appreciate the quiet time to enjoy a coffee or water my plants.

The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of oneness. It is everywhere, available to anyone at any time. It is us, the force within that makes us stable, trusting, and loving. It is contemplation contemplating. Peace is letting go - returning to the silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

Kids used to pick on me because I was quiet, I was an easy target. But I wasn't quiet because I was scared.

Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one environmental concern, not something we're going to get to later. And I say that because in that quiet is a whole experience that people can have that reaches to their soul. I like to think of quiet places in nature as the think tank of the soul. It's in these very basic levels that we'll be able to see what the real problem is.

He [the Lord] will always hear your prayers and will invariably answer them. However, His answers will seldom come while you are on your knees praying, even when you may plead for an immediate response. Rather, He will prompt you in quiet moments when the Spirit can most effectively touch your mind and heart. Hence, you should find periods of quiet time to recognize when you are being instructed and strengthened.

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.

Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

I am shy, quiet and like spending time with my family.

It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

I'm a people person when I'm out, but I'm a homebody. I like my time and peace and quiet.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better.

I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can't just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.

I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.