39 Quotes Tagged: quiet

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

The world is quiet here.

I was quiet, but I was not blind.

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

Quieting the mind means less regretting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose of the Inner Game to increase the frequency and the duration of these moments, quieting the mind by degrees and realizing thereby a continual expansion of our capacity to learn and perform.

"Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.

Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers."

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

The house was quiet when he got inside. Why wouldn't it be?
He was alone.

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

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

Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess sucha key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

The house was very quiet, and the fog — we are in November now — pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.