Chatter Quotes

• It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
  mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

  Vernon Howard

  Years, Feet, Sensible

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• All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

  Antonin Artaud

  Communication, Teeth, Language

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press

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• When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Mind, Flow

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Journey, Endless

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• I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Giving, Credit, Want

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• Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

  Marion Woodman

  Fear, Future, Healing

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• Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wind, People, Mind

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• We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its thoughts need cleansing and ordering as much as our bodies. While few of us would consider eating dinner on yesterday's dirty dishes, we think nothing of tackling our problems with yesterdays cluttered minds.... The purpose to any meditation technique is to move beyond the normal contents of our consciousness, empty your mind of its habitual chatter, and concentrate your attention for the purpose of experiencing a higher state

  Anodea Judith

  Dirty, Moving, Thinking

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• Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

  Buster Keaton

  Silence, Monkeys, Silence Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Silence, Achievement

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, Scribner

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• We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

  Penelope Lively

  Latin, Museums, Lexicon

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Presence Of Love, Seeking

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Dec 20, 2012

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• Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.

  Kent Nerburn

  Nature, Heart, Greatness

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.56, New World Library

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• Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, People, Attention

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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• What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Endless, Dialogue

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• If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Faith, Inspiration, Wind

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• As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the 'illusory' world and speak only of Enlightenment. Or else they chatter of cosmic activities leading to transformations, while neglecting the Substance from which they spring--indeed, there is NEVER any profit in discussion.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Spring, Reality, Roots

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• I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches.

  Pascal Mercier

  Witty, Men, Silence

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.85, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Of science and logic he chatters,
  As fine and as fast as he can;
  Though I am no judge of such matters,
  I'm sure he's a talented man.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Science, Men, Judging

  'The Talented Man'

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• Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

  Zhuangzi

  Great Knowledge, Small Words, Universal

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• Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Peace, Practice, Discipline

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• but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down ot go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Pain, Real

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.16, Bantam

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• Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Jobs, Worry, Proud

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• White Hot Concentration is the unappreciated fruit of hard ligting, especially squats. When your in the squat rack, with a serious amount of weight overhead, your life literally depends on maintaining concentration. You learn to block out the swirling images in the mirror, the obnoxious chatter of the people next to you, the fat drop of sweat running down your nose. Once you've mastered this concentration in the weight room, duplicating it on the race course is relatively easy. Champions have only a few things in common. One weapon they all possess is White Hot Concentration.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Block, White

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• The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Women, Devil, Tongue

  St Catherine of Siena (2007). “Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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