Stillness Quotes

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.