Contemplating Quotes - Page 2

• Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past.

  Tony Levin

  Past, Musician, Done

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• Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Running, Mind, Events

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• I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

  Todd Gitlin

  Party, Two, Differences

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

  Paul Westerberg

  Suicide, Writing, Darkness

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• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  Bernard Levin

  Dog, Pain, War

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• La mía es la primera generación capaz de contemplar la posibilidad de que podamos vivir toda nuestra vida sin ir a la guerra ni enviar a nuestros hijos a la guerra.

  Tony Blair

  Children, War, Generations

  "What to Call Tony: Analysts Review Blair Legacy". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.

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• I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

  Dougray Scott

  Jumping, Would Be, Way

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• Contemplar la guerra es pensar en la más horrible de las experiencias humanas.

  Robert Byrd

  War, Thinking, Horrible

  "Permanecemos pasivamente mudos" por Robert Byrd, www.theguardian.com. 18 de febrero de 2003.

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• Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

  Joseph Joubert

  Math, Logic, Metaphysics

  "Los cuadernos de Joseph Joubert". Libro de Joseph Joubert, traducido por Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Vi a Mussolini contemplar incansable un desfile de miles de jóvenes.

  Georges Simenon

  Men, Saws, Parades

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• Mi culo contempla a los que hablan a mis espaldas.

  Francis Picabia

  Gossip, Behind My Back, Ass

  "Francis Picabia, creador de problemas", por Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. 28 de noviembre de 2016.

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• The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

  Lil Wayne

  Inspiration, Should Have, Done

  "Remembering Lil Wayne's Letters From Riker's Island" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. November 3, 2010.

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• The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

  Johnny Depp

  Hija, Madre, Hijos

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• Gran parte de esta vida consiste en contemplar lo que no podemos curar.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Entrepreneur, Cures, Parts Of Life

  "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale".

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• Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Wind, Happens

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• El método propio de la filosofía consiste en concebir claramente los problemas insolubles en toda su insolubilidad y luego simplemente contemplarlos, fija e incansablemente, año tras año, sin ninguna esperanza, esperando pacientemente.

  Simone Weil

  Philosophy, Science, Years

  Simone Weil (2015). "Primeros y últimos cuadernos: El conocimiento sobrenatural", p.335, Wipf and Stock Publishers.

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• The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

  Clive James

  Art, Expression, Long

  Clive James (1983). "Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82", Jonathan Cape

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• La belleza no es una cualidad de las cosas en sí: Sólo existe en la mente que las contempla; y cada mente percibe una belleza diferente.

  David Hume

  Belleza, Mente, Calidad

  Ensayos morales, políticos y literarios' (ed. T. H. Green y T. H. Grose, 1875) 'De la norma del gusto' (1757)

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• Habla de ello sólo lo suficiente para hacerlo. Sueña con ello sólo lo suficiente para sentirlo. Piensa en ello sólo lo suficiente para comprenderlo. Contemplarlo sólo lo suficiente para serlo.

  Jean Toomer

  Dream, Time, Thinking

  Jean Toomer (1980). “The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer”, Washington : Howard University Press

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• There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

  Leigh Newman

  Chasing, Stills, Our Lives

  "Revelations Anyone Can Have" by Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Pieces, Paper

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• It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Progress, Foolish, Possibility

  John Maynard Keynes, Real Sociedad Económica (Gran Bretaña) (1972). "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion".

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• I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

  Meg Tilly

  Change, Children, Thinking

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• It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

  Hugh Laurie

  Tiempo, Procrastinación, Pensamiento

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Aug 10, 2015

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