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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Mark Rothko I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet. Gillian Anderson If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. A. R. Ammons In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. Deepak Chopra It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. Morgan Freeman Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. Morgan Freeman Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. Gore Vidal 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. Helen Keller 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. Morgan Freeman Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Oliver Wendell Holmes The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels. Georg Trakl The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. Jim Elliot 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. Aldous Huxley We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. Rem Koolhaas 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. David Ogden Stiers When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience. Theodore Bikel |
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