Quiet Quotes - Page 7

• Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Summer, Mean, Promise

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• Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Harvest, Open Mindedness

  "A Poet's Epitaph" l. 51 (1800)

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• If I'm not travelling for external meetings, my usual day at work starts with a quiet session to plan and prioritise things that need to get done, and then clearing off important emails that need attention.

  Azran Osman Rani

  Important, Email, Usual

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• There were times when I was frustrated, and cried and felt helpless, but the reality in Ethiopia is that you don't have much of an option. You either keep quiet or you get added to the list of people being jailed or killed.

  Feyisa Lilesa

  Reality, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Diane Wilson asked, "Why aren't people upset? Why aren't people protesting?" The mayor and county commissioners told her to keep quiet, and everybody else was afraid to speak out against the companies, which included some of the country's biggest chemical companies. There were even attempts on her life. Family members abandoned her, and certainly none of the other shrimpers stood with her.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Speaks Out, People

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and watch it all sort of move and see those small, quiet details, whether it be a small village outside of Colombo [country?] or the favelas of Brazil, where, again, resistance culture is something that you hear resonating in the streets of South Central Los Angeles as well.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Holy, Focused

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around 4 or 5 in the morning, long before most of my lab members are up, which gives me some quiet time to really think without distraction. I think that's important.

  Edward Boyden

  Morning, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Introvert, Turns

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

  Barack Obama

  Steps, Sometimes, Sensibility

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.

  Samantha Bee

  Children, Shy

  Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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• I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

  Michal Rovner

  Artist, Two, Bed

  "Michal Rovner, Into the Night". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Years, Earth

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet." I can understand her because she was a Holocaust survivor, and for her survival, she had to keep quiet. But I didn't obey my grandmother when I was a child, and in this case, I don't obey her either.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Children, Grandmother, Choices

  Source: www.salon.com

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• In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.

  William Gurstelle

  Office, I Can

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• The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Culture, Demand

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.

  Terry Bozzio

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

  Ann Patchett

  Wall, Writing, Used

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mind, Relax, Firsts

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• Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Winter, Perfect

  Source: fpmt.org

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• My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it," and he's like, "OK, I haven't even finished my popcorn and you ruined it for me."

  Nancy Grace

  Husband, Popcorn, Minutes

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Children, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

  Jesse Ball

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

  Roger Housden

  Self, Everyday, Dimensions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.

  Sarah Ellison

  Stars, Father, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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