Stillness Quotes
On the quiet strength found in standing still
These quotes treat stillness as a skill worth mastering, whether it's an actor's frightening command of a scene or a hard-won sense of radiance found in quiet. Our Art page explores craft from a related angle.
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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Ability Quotes
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
Anecdote Quotes
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness...
Angels Quotes
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is...
With 'Stillness', I don't think I appreciated how very codified all the different genres were in radio formats and the various constituencies of the culture. But music is music, too.
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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One poetic line even flips darkness into light through stillness alone. For more reflective moments, browse our Ability collection.
